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THE GOD-MAN 



OR 



THE LIFE AND WORKS OF JESUS, 
THE CHRIST AND SON OF GOD 



A POEM 

IN FIFTEEN PARTS 



BV 

Rev. henry ^.OSCH, M.D. 

AUTHOR OF 

" Psalter, Harp and Song," or Translations of many of the Choicest 

German Hymns, in the Original Metres, with Original Tunes, 

including Luther's Famous Hymn; " Poems:" I. Original 

Poems, II. Translations in the Original Metres of 

many of the best German Miscellaneous Poems, 

including Schiller's " Song of the Bell," etc. 

Translator of most of "Goethe's Poetical Works," in the Original 

Metres, including the Religious Poem of " Faust," complete. 

Author and Editor of " Conjoined Interlinear Authorized and Revised 

Holy Bible." Author of " Fundamental Bible-Truths 

and Timely Religious and Biblical 

Polemics/' etc., etc., etc. 



WITH MANY NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS 



SECOND REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION 
BOSTON 

RICHARD G. BADGER 

1909 






Copyright, 1904, by Henry Losch, M. D. 

Copyright; 1909, by Henry Losch, M.D. 

All rights reserved. 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

Contents, ...... 

Christ's Miracles Stated or Referred to, 
Illustrations, ..... 

List of Other Names than God and Christ, 
Preface, ...... 

The Life and Works of Jesus, the Christ and Son 
of God. 
Dedication, ....... 3 

F'rologue, ....... 4 

part 

L Christ the Promised and Expected Messiah, 5-9 

IL John the Baptist's Testimony of Christ. Christ 
proves His Divinity in the Choice of His Apos- 
tles. Christ begins to work Miracles, . . 10-19 
in. Christ working Miracles on condition of Faith 

demonstrating His Sonship of God, . . 20-29 

IV. Christ's Range of Miracles extended through 

Nature supernaturally, .... 30-4* 

V. As " Son of God " Christ worked Miracles ir- 
respective of the Laws of this physical World. 
Christ's supernatural Origin transcends all 
Miracles, ...... 43-50 

VI. Christ meets the Objections to His Power work- 
ing Miracles. Other Opponents to Christ men- 
tioned from early Times, .... 51-65 

VII. Christ's Apostles, Jewish Priests, Rulers, and 
Pharisees, and the so-called Church-Fathers 
nearest the Apostolic age, Believers in Christ and 
His Miracles. — Christ the only sinless Man, His 
Consecration, Baptism in Jordan, Conquest over 
Satan, His Transfiguration, . . . 66-82 

VIII. Simon Peter's Attestation concerning Christ and 

Christ's Reply, 85-88 

IX. Christ's Testimony of Himself including His 
Teachings as presented in His Sermon on the 
Mountain with His "Our Father" model 
Prayer, etc., etc., ..... 89-101 



iv Contents. 



X. Christ's Entrance into Jerusalem. His teaching 
the Law of Christian Love. The Institution of 
the Supper-Sacrament. Christ's Conflict in 
Gethsemane and His Death. Christ's Resurrec- 
tion from the Dead, His Ascension into Heaven 
and His first Royal Manifestation from there in 
the miraculous Outpouring of the Holy Spirit, 102-134 
XL The Seeking of sinful Men for God's Pardon 

answered through Christ's Atonement, . 135-140 

Xn. Christ's Atonement, the Reason for its Accom- 
plishment, its Completion and Extent, . 141-149 

XIIL Assured Christian Faith applying Christ's 
Redemption He achieved in His God-man 
Nature, ...... 150^153 

XIV. Spiritual Treasures guaranteed to the Believers 
in Jesus Christ in God's Realm of eternal glory, 
implying Immortality of man's soul, . . 154-160 

XV. Acceptance of Jesus Christ as the Son of God 
and the only Saviour of the World — irrespective 
of all other Systems of Religion, Ethics, 
Philosophies etc., — implies participation in the 
New Testament promised divine Nature, and of 
the Glorification like Christ's in Heaven 
eternally, ...... 161-1S2 



CHRIST'S MIRACLES 

STATED OR REFERRED TO. 

PACK 

1. The Water made Wine, . . IS ff-> 46, 54, 63 

2. The Healing of the Nobleman's Son, ... 20 

3. The First Miraculous Draught of Fishes, . . 18 

4. The Calming of the Tempest, . . . . 30 ff. 

5. The Healing of the Demoniacs in the Gadarene 

Country, ...... 28, 29 

6. The Raising of Jairus' Daughter, .... 41 

7. The Woman's Disease Healed, .... 21 

8. The Eyes of the Blind Opened, . . . . 21 

9. The Paralytic Healed, ..... 26 

10. The Cleansing of the Lepers, .... 22 

11. The Centurian's Servant Healed, .... 20 

12. The Demoniac in the Synagogue Healed (Implied), 26 

13. Peter's Wife's Mother Healed, .... 23 

14. The Raising of the Widow's Son, ... 41 

15. The Impotent Man at Bethsaida Healed, . . 27 

16. The Miraculous Feeding of the Five Thousand, . 17, 18 

17. The Walking on the Sea of Christ and Peter, ) 32, 57, 152 
Jesus saving Peter from Sinking, / 152 

18. The Eyes of the Man born blind opened, . 22, 32 

19. The Restoring of a Man's withered Hand, . . 27 

20. The Woman with the Spirit of Infirmity healed, . 26 

21. The Man with Dropsy healed (implied), . . 26 

22. The Ten Lepers Cleansed, ..... 22 

23. The Healing of the Syrophenician Woman's 

Daughter, ....... 23 

24. The Deaf and Dumb healed, .... 22 

25. The Miraculous Feeding of the Five Thousand, 17, 18, 63 

26. The Eyes of the Blind opened (at Bethsaida), 21, 22, 26 

27. The Sick (lunatic child etc., etc.) healed, . . 26 

28. The Finding of the Coin in the Fish's Mouth, . 18 

29. The Raising of Lazarus, . . . . 35 ff. , 54 

30. f Two Blind Men ( &c) , Blind Bartimeus, near 

31. \ Jericho healed, . . . . . 21 

32. The Withering of the Fruitless Tree, ... 30 

33. The Healing of Malchus' Ear, .... 32 

34. The Second Miraculous Draught of Fishes, . . 19 

35. The Incarnation of Jesus Christ ( exceeds all Miracles), 49 

36. The Transfiguration of Jesus Christ, . . . , 83 

37. The Resurrection of Jesus Christ, 54, 106 ff., no ff., 149, 178 

38. The Ascension of Jesus Christ into Heaven, . 55, 125 

39. The Outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Jerusalem, . 127 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



Henry Losch ..... 
I. Christ (Christus), .... 

a. The Marriage (Miracle) at Cana, 

3. Christ healing all Kinds of sick Men, 

4. Christ and Peter walking on the Sea, -> 
The Saving of Peter from Sinking, J 

5. The Raising of Jai'rus' Daughter, 

6. The Baptism of Christ by John in Jordan, 

7. Christ's Transfiguration, 

8. Christ entering into Jerusalem, 

9. Mary Magdalene and the other Mary at the 

10. " He is Risen as He said," 

1 1 . Christ appears to Mary Magdalene after His 

rection, ..... 

12. John ( looking into Heaven) , 



PAGE 

Frontispiece 
Dedication 

13, 14 
25, 26 

33, 34 

39. 4i> 
69, 70 
83, 84 
103, 104 
Grave, iii, iii 
115, 116 
Resur- 

121, I2Z 
180. 181 



LIST OF NAMES BESIDES GOD AND 
CHRIST. 



Abram, / 

Abraham, j ^"^ 

Adam, 68, 86, 89 

Adam second, 89 

Agassiz, 164 

Ambrose, 67 

Angel, 114 

Angels, 79, 80, go, 92, 155 ff. 

Apollonius, 51 

Apostles, II, 18, 70, 85, 88, 

124, 128, 131, 134 
Apostolic Fathers, 67 
Aristotles, 135 
Athanasius, 67 
Augustine, 67 
Baer, v., 164 
Baptist Congress, 72 
Bartimeus, 21 
Basil the Great, 67 
Bauer, 60 
Beale, 164 
Beelzebub, 51 
Bernard of Clairvaux, 59 
Bischoff, 164 
Blanchard, 164 
Briggs, 62 
Browning, 37, 63 
Calvin, 150 
Cana, la 
Celsus, 52 
Centurion, 20 
Christian or Christians, 51, 66, 

67, 75, 85, 86, 88, 150, 175, 

178 
Church of Christ, 72, 75, 85, 

128, 133, 151, 161, 171, 172 
Church Fathers, 67 
Crysostom, 67 
Cicero, 135 



Clement, 67 

Cyprian, 67 

Dana, 164 

Daniel, 90, 138 ff. 

Darius, 138 ff. 

Darwin, 164 

David, 22 

Demon, 23 

Devils, 29, 40, 51 ff. 

Duke of Argyll, 168 

Eckermann, 66, 153, 175 

Eden, 144, 145. 

Elected, 90, 133 

Elijah, 82, 83, 85, 123 

Encycl. Brit., 51, 162, 171 

Eusebius, 52, 67 

Evil Spirits, 28 

EwalJ, 57 

Fechner, 164 

Franciscus of Assisi, 59 

Galilee, 30, 81 

Gellert, 168 

Gentiles, 118, 135, 172 

Gcthsemane, 108 

Goethe, 54, 66, 153, 163, 175 

Gregory the Great, 67 

Hades, 87, 113 

Haeckel, 165 ff. 

Harnack, 57, 59 

Hase, 58 

Hedge, 54 

Helmholz, 164 

Herder, 54 ff. 

Heretics, 68 

Hesz, 53 

Hierocles, 52 

Higher Critics, 60 

Hume, 56 

Huxley, 164 



Vlll 



Contents. 



Ignatius, 67 

Immanuel, 9, 49 

Infidels, 173 

Israel, the people, 6, 45 

Jairus, 41 

James, 62, 158 

Jerome, 67 

Jerusalem, 7, 102 ff., 125 

Jewish Nobleman, 20 

Jews, 92, 118, 135 

John the Baptist, 7, 10, 54, 

71 ff. 74 
John the Evangelist, 19, 62, 

132, 152, 180 
Jordan, 71, 72 
Julian, 51 
Justin Martyr, 67 
Kant, 52 

Lazarus, 35 ff., 54 ff. 
Lessing, 53 
Lokrian, 139 
Longfellow, 37 
Luke, 62 
Luther, 63 
Lyell, 164 
Martha, 38,59 
Mary Magdalene, 121 
Mary, 15 
Matthew, 62 
Milton, 76 
Messiah, 5, 82, 96 
Moses, 82, 83, 123 
Nain, 41 
Neander, 12 
Nicodemus, 74 
Noah, 113 
Olivet, 108, 125 
Origen, 67 
Ovid, 135 
Owen, 164 
Pantheist, 55 
Pantheism, 163 
Paul, 62, 64, 75, 136, 158 
Paulus, 56 
Pctrr, 19, 23, 75, 82 ff., 106, 

113, 129, 132, 153, 160 



Pharisees, 96, 98, 154 

Plato, 135 

Polycarp, 67 

Predestinarians, 147 

Priests, 66 ff. 

Publicans, 154 

Rationalists, 56 

Red Sea, 45 

Reimarus, 52 ff. 

Realm of Glory, 158 ff., J72 

Rcnan, 59 ff. 

Ruler, Rulers, 67 

Satan, 24, 49, 51, 77 

Sceptic, Sceptics, 36, 173 

Schliermacher, 57 ff., 62 ff. 

Scribes, 96, 98, 154 

Sermon on the Mount, 97 ff. 

Sinai, 141 

Socrates, 135 

Solomon, 45 

Spencer, 164 

Spinoza, 52 ff., 55 

Stephen, 118 

Strausz, 63 ff. 

Syrophocnician Woman, 23 ff. 

Taylor, 54 

Tennyson, 36 

Tcrtullian, 67 

Thomas, 36 

Thomas Aquinas, 45 

Tuebingen School, 60 

Ulrizi, 164 

Virchow, 164 

Wagner, 164 

Wallace, 164 

Wesley, 151 

Wigand, 164 

Wolfenbuettcl Fragments, 53 

Woolston, 60 

Zaleucus, 139 

Zinzendorf, 151 



PREFACE. 

By asserting, argumentatively as well as historically, 
in the following, necessarily, elaborate and extensive 
Poem, that Jesus is the Christ, the God-sent (Messiah) 
and God- and Men-attested Son of God, the argument 
centering first in the proofs of His divine authority and 
power to perform Miracles, and extending to the far- 
reaching proofs of His divine character as the only 
acceptable, appreciated and fully recognized Mediator 
between God and men. He being, therefore, the 
exclusive divine Saviour of men who are His followers: 
the undersigned claims to present distinctively, essen- 
tially (with many of the foremost Biblical proof-texts, 
quotations from and references to various authors and 
their works, in foot-notes), the scriptural and rational 
answers, not only in regard to some philosophical and 
scientijic problems involved, but also to some of the 
so-called burning questions of all times in the Christian 
era, even from the beginning, and, especially, of this 
our present time and age, focused in the undisguised 
sceptic questions, asking: "What of Jesus Christ, His 
Life, Miracles, Doctrines and Teachings, as presented 
in the New Testament ? " — 

That my work, in its greatly epitomized, and its 
fluent poetical form and expression, its sublimity and 
spirituality of its subject-matter from an orthodox 
Christian point of view, may find acceptance and many 
readers, and redound to the glory of God and His 
Christ, is my most sincere desire. 

Henry Losch. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 



PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION 

In presenting the second revised and enlarged 
edition of mv work, "The God-Man," I am sincerely 
thankful for the warm reception the first edition has 
received from the many hundreds of purchasers who 
have hailed the work as most timely to answer the 
great scepticism, unbelief, and half-belief of our age 
and times. The poem is setting forth in fifteen parts 
or cantos the life and works of Jesus as the Christ and 
Son of God, according to the original complete records 
of the New Testament, from the fullest conviction that 
the New Testament writers have testified with mar- 
velous unanimity all about Christ's life, miracles, 
doctrines, and teachings which most of them have seen 
and heard during the three years they have walked and 
lived with Christ. As fully seen from the Index of the 
various parts of the book the poem covers all the spe- 
cial phases of Jesus, the Christ and Son of God. 

Feeling now still more than ever before that the 
book is of permanent good use and practical help to 
any one who accepts and studies it in continuous read- 
ing, and that therefore it mav find greater acceptance 
and many more careful readers and thus redound to 
the glory of God and His Christ, is and remains my 
most sincere desire. 

Henry Losch. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 



THE GOD-MAN 



THE LIFE AND WORKS OF JESUS, 
THE CHRIST AND SON OF GOD 



A POEM 




CHRIST (CHRISTUS^ 



DEDICATION. 

Two thousand years soon will be ended. 

Since Thou, O Christ, didst come to earth. 
All previous history suspended. 

Events from Thy birth date their birth. 
Whate'er, Thou, Lord, hast been achieving 

In life and death and life in heav'n. 
We verily must be believing 

Divinely works as mighty leav'n 

All generations permeating, 

Who through Thy gospel hear of Thee, 
God's Spirit e'er regenerating 

Each soul that yields submissively 
To Thee and to God's Will requiring 

A living faith in Thee, God's Son, 
Through Thee the liberty acquiring 

Which for Thy followers Thou hast won. 

Thy life, so wondrously affirming 

By well-attested miracles 
Thee as God's Son, has been confirming 

All truly God-born oracles. — 
All this completely to be giving 

Has been my soul's sincerest aim; 
Bless, own my work, O Lord, Thou living 

And saving Christ, to praise God's name. 



PROLOGUE. 

I 

By works divine is indicated 

That he who works a God-like deed 

To Him most closely is related. 

From whom all powers divine nroceed. 

ij 

A Christ-like work, therefore, is claiming 

That it alone from Him proceeds. 
Of whom the Prophets are proclaiming 

That He in might all powers exceeds. '-^ 

HI 

Is, therefore, what Christ wrought, creation 
With God's omnipotence impressed: 

The Primitive Christian Dispensation, 

With works by God wrought, has been blest! 

*i Kings 13: 3-7 etc. J Mat. 11:4, 5 etc. 



I 

CHRIST THE PROMISED AND EXPECTED MESSIAH 
FROM THE BEGINNING. 

I 

When Christ, God's Son/ put forth endeavor 

By miracles to show God's might. 
He neither indolence would favor. 

Nor manifest a magic sight. 
II 
He to the one and all was saying : 

** Except ye signs and wonders see," ^ 
Their lust for marvelous things betraying — 

*• Ye never will believe in me." 
Ill 
It therefore seemed like condescension 

To slow susceptibility. 
Instead of their true apprehension 

To give His words in equity, 

IV 

And state : " Can ye, that in the Father 

I am and He's in me,^ not see. 
Believe me for the works' sake rather. 

For they do testify of me." * 
v 
The people Israel ^ awaited 

Fulfilment of the prophecies. 
Of old,® in Him, the delegated 

Messiah,' by God's own decrees. 

* Luke i: 35; John 10: 25-38 etc. ^John 4: 48 etc. 'John 
14: II; 5: 36. *John 10: 25-38 etc. ^John 4: 25; Mat. 

Zl: 9. ^ Isa. 29: 18 ff.; 35: 5 ff.; 61: I; Zeph. 3: 12 fF. etc. 
'Deut. 18: 18 ff.; Isa. 40: 3 ff.; Ps. 118:26; Mai. 3: i; Hag. 2: 
9; Mat. I: 16; John i: 14 etc. 



The God- Man, 



VI 

God from beginning was providing 

" The bruiser of the serpent's head;" ^ — 

** Ye are, if in my word abiding. 

My true disciples," - God's Son said, 

VII 

"The truth divine ye shall be knowing. 
And that, indeed, shall make you free," 

That in the might it is bestowing — 

" None e'er of sin bondservant be." ' — 

VIII 

"The Sun of Righteousness" God sending, 
" With healing in His wings," * arose ; 

Thus all, on whom His rays are bending. 
Receive His bliss and sweet repose.* 

IX 

We need inquire not any longer 

And say : " Watchman, what of the night ? " ^ 
" The Day spring from on high " ' did conquer 

Illuminating all with light.® — 

X 

Thus Jesus, God's Son, when appearing 
With supernatural powers endowed 

**To raise the dead,'" "all men were ^"fearing;" — 
(That Christ as child they saw, some ^^ vowed ; 

' Gen. 3: 15 etc. ''John 8: 31 fF. etc. 'John 8: 32-37 

(Rev. Vers.) * Mai. 4: 2 etc. ^ Mat. ii: 28, 29 etc. * Isa. 
21: n etc. 'Luke i: 78, 79 etc. ® Isa. 9: 1-9 etc. * Luke 
7: 15 etc. i^Luke 7: 16 etc. ^' Luke a: 25-36 ff. 



Part I. 

XI 

Christ's parents to God's House ^ repairing. 
To bring — as customs then prevailed — 

The sacrifice they'd been preparing. 

Two persons Him as Christ there hailed ; 



Both aged persons, long inquiring 

For the fulfilments as to Christ, 
The Holy Spirit was inspiring 

That they God'' s Christ there recognized.^ — 

XIII 

And when then John^ of Christ's works hearing 
Asked Christ, the question to decide : 

**Art thou that one,^ or is appearing 
Another ? ' ' Christ Himself replied : 

XIV 

Tell John the message of my teaching ; 

"Tell what you saw, since you are here ;* 
The gospel to the poor I'm preaching ; 

The blind do see ; the deaf do hear ; 

XV 

The unclean, infirm and lame I'm healing ; 

The dead, I've raised, — new life commence ; 
To all God's kingdom I'm revealing ; 

Blest he is, who takes no offence." * — 

^ Luke 2: 22 ff. etc. ^ Luke 7: 19, 20 etc. ^ Ps. 118: 26; 
Mai. 3: I etc. * Luke 7: 22, 23 etc. ^ Luke 7: 21, 22 etc. 



The God-Man. 



XVI 

Christ, naturally, this was applying 

First to the physically blind, ^ 
Lame, deaf, or those on sick-beds lying. 

Who hoped through Him full health to find ; 

XVII 

Yet also, doubtlessly, included 

Those doubting that from God He came,^ 
Those blind ^ and dead,* to whom He alluded. 

When once His follower one became.^ 

XVIII 

Christ never as a vain magician 
A miracle proposed, or wrought. 

But as the God-sent,® wise physician 
He worked and uttered every thought,'' 

XIX 

His long-predestined ® work revealing. 
His heavenly Father Him assigned. 

All kinds of sick ^ men to be healing. 
First such as were of Israel's^" kind. — 

XX 

Most wondrous words were ever flowing 
From His lips charged with truths divine. 

Balsamic ease to each bestowing. 
Who yielded to His will benign. 

'Luke 7: 21 etc. ^John 8: 42 etc. 'John 9: 40, 41 etc. 

*Mat. 8: 22. *Mat. 8: 21. ^John 5: 23, 24; 12: 44 etc. 

''John 4: 34 etc. * Mai. 3: I ff. etc. 'Mat. 9: 12, 13 etc. 
'"Mat. 15; 24 fF. etc. 



Part I. 9 

XXI 

No words or truths were ever spoken 

That touched and moved men's hearts as His,^ 

And every deed He wrought was token 
Of thoughts divine and heavenly bliss. 

XXII 

No wonder, they to Him were bringing 
Outbursts of homage and loud cheers,^ 

Who oft 'mid miracles ' was ringing 
His gospel- words into their ears. — 

XXIII 

Our utmost thanks belong forever 

To Jesus Christ, Immanuel,^ 
For greater majesty shone never 

Than crowned His every miracle. — 

^John 7: 46; Mat. 7: 29; Mark i: 22 etc. ^John 12: 13; 
Mat. 8: 27 etc. ^ Acts 2: 22 etc. * Mat. i: 23 (Revised 
Version, ) 



II 

JOHN THE BAPTIST'S TESTIMONY OF CHRIST. 

CHRIST PROVES HIS DIVINITY IN THE 

CHOICE OF HIS APOSTLES. CHRIST 

BEGINS TO WORK MIRACLES. 

I 

When John the Spirit ^ saw descending 

And that on Christ it did abide/ 
He Christ as ♦' God's Son " ^ was commending 

And clearly of Him testified : 

II 

" Behold, the Lamb of God ! " ^ This hearing 
Two of John's followers, they came close 

To Christ, both timid still appearing. 
As none there to address Him chose, — 

III 

The* Christ, who saw their soul's great yearning 

In company with Him to be. 
Turned 'round — that He from them be learning 

Their wish — and asked them : " What seek, 
ye?" ^ 

IV 

And when they : *' Where art thou residing, 
O Master," said, ** For we seek Thee," — 

Their fate for their whole life deciding — 

Christ answered : " Come, and ye shall see." ® 

^John I: 32. ^John i: 32, 33. ^John i: 34-37. ''Mat. 
26: 63, 64. Paul in Col. 2: 2; Eph. 5: 5; Rom. 9: 5; Tit. 2: 
10 and 13, calls Christ distinctly " God." ^ John i: 38. ®John 
*' 3^1 39- (Rev'sed Version.] 



Part 11. 1 1 

V 

The more the Chrjst they had been seeing. 
The greater their amazement grew. 

All the appearance of His Being 
Astonished them each day anew. — 

VI 

To others, also, truths revealing 

Which proved to them a mystery,^ — 

All this their faith in Christ was sealing 
That He alone God^s Sou must be. — 



VII 

And when He others, too, elected 
To enter His Messiah-sphere, 

There twelve Apostles were selected ^ 
As co-workers in His career. — ■ 

VIII 

Then all fulfilled to Christ appearing 
That now as God'' s Son He be seen. 

Such days of works divine were nearing 
As never on this earth had been. — 

IX 

When therefore in His revelations 
All wondered at Christ's oracles, 

He pointed to the attestations 

They should see ^ in His miracles. 

ijohn 1: 48. ^ Mat. 10: 2 etc. ^John i: 50 ff. etc. 



12 The God-Man. 

X 

Thus at the first,' He was performing 

In Cana, at a marriage-feast, 
Christ to the need of wine conforming. 

Miraculously, wine increased. — 

^ John 2: i-i I. 

Dr. Neander in his ' Life of Jesus Christ' (6th Edit., p. 2o8) 
so entirely different from his otherwise orthodox work here 
strangely remarks [I translate correctly]: "We are in no wise 
justified to presume that Christ changed the water into the same 
which is made out of the fruit of the vine, but we need only to 
assume that He imparted to the water such a higher power as 
to be able to produce the same effects as strong wine, or 
imparting iv'ine-Hke strength to the water by means of a mere 
potency.^'' In a foot-note he then states : "It would be quite 
welcome to me, if this conception could find support in that of an 

older churchly one, as B in an old hymn to have found 

believed: ^Vel hydriis pknh aqua ■vin't saporem infuderis.^ ^' To 
this he added this : ' ' The word sapor here is hardly thus to be 
emphasized. Vinl saporem infundere in the sense of the hymn, 
indeed, is nothing else than in -vinum mutare,^^ i. e. to change into 
•wine, entirely different from his own giving " a mere •wine-like 
potency. ^^ To this we need but to reply, that if such a deception, 
to say the least, had taken place, either here, or at any other 
miraculous performance of Christ, His disciples and immediate 
followers, doubtless, would have detected and mentioned it, but in 
absolute want of such a declaration on their part, the above insinu- 
ation must fall to the ground, as also Neander himself afterwards 
refers to this making the water into wine as to the ^^Jirst miracle^' 
Christ performed. 




THE MARRIAGE AT CANA 
John 2: 1-11 



Part 11. 1 5 

XI 

The servants, no more wine possessing. 

Were charged to Christ's words to attend,* 

So that, should He them be addressing. 
They might assistance to Him lend. — 

XII 

That they forthwith jars should be filling 
With water, Christ of them required ; 

When filled the jars, then He was thrilling 

The hearts through wine which all admired. — 

XIII 

The water, they from jars were taking. 
Most wondrously, by power divine, 

Christ, as the Son of God, was making 
To genuine, well-accepted ^ wine. 

XIV 

That miracle, therefore, presented 

No beverage to earth unknown ; 
It wine, a " good wine " ^ represented. 

Such as in that land's fields was grown. — 

XV 

As they in Christ faith were possessing 
To do what He wished done to see. 

He through that miracle was blessing 
Their faithful toil effectively. 

* John 2: 5. - John 2: 10. 



1 6 ^he God-Man. 

XVI 

** His glory Christ thus manifested" 
Through His first miracle,^ then done. 

Which His divinity attested 

And clearly proved Him as God's Son. 

XVII 

Though 'gainst His wilF to act requested, — 
As show His words in His reply, — 

In deference of His words protested. 

He still wrought that " good wine's ' " supply. 

XVIII 

"And His disciples," John there stated, 
^* Believed on Him,'''' ^ whereby we see 

How Christ that feast potentiated 
By His miraculous Majesty. 

XIX 

E'en from the first Christ was outreaching 

All kinds of men well to prepare 
To listen to His Gospel's preaching 

Soon here and there and everywhere,* 

XX 

'Tween Him and John, the Baptist, showing 
A contrast far and wide and clear. 

Divine light all men's spheres bestowing. 
As He went on in His career. — 

'John 2: II. ^John 2: 3 fF. *John 2: 9 fF. *John 2: 11. 
6 Mat. 4: 17, 23 fF. etc.; Mark I: 38 fF. etc.; John 2: 13 fF. etc. 



Part II. 1 7 

XXI 

Christ oft, when miracles performing. 

Through means within the human sphere,^ 

His work to men's toil was conforming. 
That His divinity appear. 

XXII 

There in the desert thousands feeding,^ 
Where He some food did multiply. 

Through human means He men was leading 
To grasp His doctrines deep and high, 

XXIII 

The much-implying truth insuring 

That "I," said He, " the bread of God, 

Am ceaseless life for all procuring. 

Who eat my flesh and drink my blood." ' 

XXIV 

Rare circumstances were requiring 

A sign of Christ's almightiness. 
Men by the thousands were retiring 

To hear Him in the wilderness. 

XXV 

The desert was all hope defying 

For food the multitudes to feed. 
They on nought else could be relying. 

Except that He supply their need. 

^John 9: 6; Mark 7: 33 etc., etc. * Mat. 14: 15-21; Mark 
6: 34-46; Luke 9: 12-17; John 6: 5-1 1- ^John 6: 26-58. 



1 8 T'he God-Man. 



XXVI 

There He gave thanks ^ the heavenly Father 

For the miraculous supplies 
Of which the fragments, they did gather. 

Large baskets filling,^ gave surprise. 

XXVII 

This miracle no new creation 

Of food reveals, unknown before, 
'Twas wonderful ^ multiplication 

Of food from a poor fisher'' s store. 

XXVIII 

Few loaves, few fishes scanty measure. 
By human hands prepared and caught. 

This human food to such a treasure 

As ^' fed five thousand men,^^ * Christ 
wrought ; — 

XXIX 

That draught if fishes, they were making 
Miraculously,^ — all confessed ; ® — 

That coin^ one from that fish was taking ; — 
All were but labors Christ had blessed. 

XXX 

That fish-draught ' rightly there beholding. 

The clear catastrophe we see 
How fishermen Christ was imbolding 

Apostles of God's Son to be.* 



'Mat. 14: 19. * Mat. 14: 20 etc. * Compare Mark 8: 6-9. 
*Luke 9: 14; Mat. 14: t\ etc. * Luke 5: i-ii. * Luke 5: 9, 
10. 'Mat. 17: 24-27. ®Luke 5: 9-1 1 etc. 



Part 11. 19 

XXXI 

For Christ, as this was His own meaning. 

In working that great miracle, 
"Thou shalt catch men," ^ was intervening 

As His majestic oracle. 

XXXII 

So, too, as postscript 'tis recorded. 
That after Christ rose from the dead. 

He similar aid to His afforded. 
And to a like success them led.^ — 

XXXIII 

When He had, unknown, to those stated. 
Who toiled all night, but nothing caught. 

Where many fishes were located, — 

Great fishes, then, to land they brought. 

XXXIV 

At once the miracle discerning 

John, *' 'Tis the Lord," to Peter said. 

Who, hastily, to meet Christ yearning. 
To reach the land full efforts made.^ — 



XXXV 

And when the fishes they had counted 

And found a hundred fifty-three. 
All their success to Christ accounted. 

And each His miracle could see.'^ 

^Lukej: 10. ^Johnai: 1-23. ^johnii: 7. *John2i: 12, 



Ill 

CHRIST WORKING MIRACLES ON CONDITION OF 
FAITH DEMONSTRATING HIS SON- 
SHIP OF GOD. 

I 

Faith was the sure qualification 

For all, who sought Christ to be healed. 

Each patient, low or high in station. 
He cured, if they but faith revealed. 

II 

This rule o^ faith with Christ was binding. 

And so it is recorded, too. 
That where in places He was finding 

"No faith y^^ "No great works He could do.''* * 

III 

So, Christ, though far away, was healing 
That Jewish nobleman's sick son 

Through faith, ^ the father was revealing. 
Who Christ to bring from home had gone ; 

IV 

And finding Jesus, he was pressing 
The wish that to his son He come. 

But seeing faith, Christ wrought His blessing. 
Which healed the son there in his home. — 

V 

Thus, too, full health Christ was bestowing 

The slave of the Centurion ; ' 
He said, when this one faith was showing : 

"As thou hadst faith, to thee be it done." 

sr — — — — ' — ' — — — — ■ • ■ ^— — — ^— 

iJVIark 6: 5. ^John 4: 46-54. ^ Mat. 8: 5-13. 



Part III. 21 

VI 

So was that woman ^ who was wasting 
"All that she had," that she be healed 

From a severe disease, but hasting 

To Christ by faith in her concealed. — 

VII 

She to herself had been confessing : 

" My touching Him heals my disease ; " 

When touched, Christ answered, her addressing : 
*' Thy faith hath healed thee, go in peace." * 

VIII 

So, too, is each miraculous healing 

Of many a Wind ^ man, young and old. 

The record of the joyful feeling 

Of each one, who of Christ took hold 

IX 

By living faith, — in some created 
By asking : '* Have ye faith in me 

That I do this ? " * and He then stated : 
♦* Since ye had faith, it to you be." * 

X 

So, Bartimeus blind * perceiving. 

Through throngs of people passing by — 

Where he was sitting alms receiving — 
That Jesus Christ was coming nigh : 

* Mat. 9: 20-22; Mark 5: 25-34; Luke 8: 43-48. ^ Luke 8: 
48. ^ Mat. 9: 27-31 ; 12: 22; 20: 30; John 9: I etc.. * Mat. 
9: 28. 5 Mat. 9: 29. ® Mark 10: 46. 



22 l^he God-Man. 

XI 

By faith his voice raised, "Jesus," crying, 
'* Thou David's Son, have mercy on me; ** 

Christ halting, called and asked replying: 
** What wilt thou, that I do to thee ? " 

XII 

And when He heard the blind man's yearning: 
"Lord, to receive my sight," I pray, 

** T\iy faith thee healed " to him returning. 
Healed, " he Christ followed in the way."^ — 

XIII 

To deaf and dumb,^ e'en to one ne'er seeing 
From birth,' — all men who greatly grieve — 

The power of hearing, speaking, seeing, 
Christ gave to each who did believe. — 



The leper-cleansing,* too, is showing 

Belief in each the heavenly root. 
Through which sure health Christ was bestowing 

The "lepers, sick from head to foot."* — 

XV 

As soon as Chrhi faith' s words was hearing: 
" Lord, if thou wilt Thou canst make clean,** 

No power dared to be interfering 

His answer: " / will, be thou clean ! " 

^Mark lo: 52. ^ Mat. 9: 32 etc.; Mark 7: 31-37. 'John 
9 : I etc. * Mat. 8 : 1-4 ; Mark I : 40-45 } Luke 5 : 12-16. 
* Luke 5: 12; 17: 12-14, 19 etc. 



Part III. 23 

XVI 

So were the cures of that sick mother 

Of His disciple, Peter's wife,^ 
And Canaanitish woman's daughter,'' 

Bestowed to faith wrestling for life; — 

XVII 

One from attacks of fever suffered. 

And one was vexed by a demon bold. 

To each one normal health Christ proffered. 
When pressed hy faith' s tenacious hold; — 

XVIII 

They for that mother's cure beseeching, 

At once saw her recovery,^ 
Thus, both. His miracles and teaching,^ 

Proved amply that the Christ He be.^ 

XIX 

The heathen mother, too, believing 

That Christ had balm for every wound. 

In spite of sharp rebukes, was cleaving 
To Him, until His help she found. 

XX 

Though, doubtless, she felt deeply wounded 

By epithets ® quite undisguised. 
She never yet could be confounded 

In her '' great faith'^ in Jesus Christ. 

1 Mat. 8: 14-17; Mark I: 29-31; Luke 4: 38. ^ Mat. 15: 
22-28; Mark 7: 25-30. ^ Luke 4: 38, 39. * Mark i: 27 etc. 
* Mark I: 31. (See marginal note of Rev. Version: "Many 
ancient authorities add to be Christ.^'' " Mat. 15: 26 etc. 



24 'T^he God-Man. 



XXI 

And thus to her Christ was confessing: 
^^ Great is thy faith, it be to thee 

As asked," then Satan dispossessing 
Her daughter, left her instantly.^ — 

XXII 

Thus all the sick,^ whom was distressing 
Pain in some way, — the lame, the sore. 

The infirm,^ — whoe'er /^//^ was possessing. 
To health and strength Christ did restore. — 

XXIII 

What insight into each relation 

0{ ra&Vi % faith and the gift divine 

Of sight, or speech, or of salvation 

Of helpless man in misery's shrine ! — 

XXIV 

When Christ once through the roof saw bringing 

A paralytic,* instantly. 
In that man's ears His words were ringing: 

^^Be cheered, thy sins are pardoned thee ! " 

XXV 

Christ saw ^tvc faith. That was sufficient, — 
They need nor prayer, nor word to say. 

The help. He proffered, was efficient. 
Healed, he arose and went his way. — 

' Mat. 15: 28. 2 Mat. 9: 35; Mark 3: 1-15; Luke 6: 6-15. 
'Luke 13: II; 14: 1-65 John 5: 1-16 etc. * Luke 5: 18-26; 
Mat. 9: 2-7; Mark 2: 1-12 etc. 




CHRIST HEALING THE SICK 



Part III. 27 

XXVI 

So in the place/ where oft were staying 
The weak and suffering in the land, 

Christ's word: "Stretch forth thy hand!'* 
obeying 
A man had healed his withered hand. — 



XXVII 

So in the porches ^ Christ surveying 
The sick who suffered deep-felt woe. 

He to an impotent was saying: 

"Arise, take up thy bed and go !^^ 

XXVIII 

** And, instantly, he was arising. 

Took up his bed and went his way." ' 

This act of healing was surprising 

The Jews, — for 'twas the Sabbath day. — 

XIX 

And answering them God's Son was giving 

The keynote to His miracles. 
Assuring that His life here living. 

All His works and His oracles 

XXX 

Were but in closest emulation 

Of God, of whom He freely said : 

** My Father worketh since creation," * 
And ne'er great pauses He has made, — 

^Mat. 12: 9-13; Mark 3: 1-5; Luke 6: 6-n. ^John 5: 
1-16. 'John 5: 9. *John 5: 17. 



28 The God-Man. 

XXXI 

" And I, God's Son, always conforming 
To works which wrought by God I see. 

Such works alone can be performing 
As prove our mutual harmony." ^ 

XXXII 

Here Christ, that Goer's Son He is, stated, — 
Nought weightier in the Scriptures is; — 

Most closely they are thus related, 

Since God's works are the same as His. — 

XXXIII 

If God the Father rules creation 

In constant new activity, 
Christ proving His full God-relation, 

Like God, must e'er creative^ be. — 

xxxiv 
(Christ also clearly promulgated 

The doctrine how to keep that day. 
Declaring it " for man created," ^ 

That bliss to man's soul it convey.) 

xxxv 
So e'en the prayer to their destruction 

Of " evil spirits " * Christ approved. 
And as their prayer met no obstruction. 

They entered swine which near by moved ; — 

ijohn 5: 19 ff. etc; 14: 10, 11, etc. ^j^hn ^. ^^ ^^ g^c. 
8 Mark 2: 27, 28. * Mat. 8: 28-34; Mark 5: 1-20; Luke 8: 
26-39. 



Pari III. 29 

XXXVI 

(The herd about two thousand numbered; — 
Those men, by "devils " there possessed. 

That region had with fear encumbered 

Through wrath and madness they expressed.) 

XXXVII 

Christ ne'er to " unclean spirits " * suffered, — 
Though <' devils e'en believe 'mid fear." * 

That Him by them be homage proffered. 
Or Him as God's Son they revere; 

XXXVIII 

He them " rebuked " ^ severely, saying: 
" Be still, come out of him and leave ! " 

And 'mid some wild and strange displaying 

They left* the souls whom they did grieve. — 



^ Mark i: 23-26; Luke 4: 33-36. ^ James 2: 19. * Mat. 
17: 18; Mark 9: 25; Luke 9: 42 etc. * Mat. 17: 18; Mark 
9: 25; Luke 9: 42 etc. 



IV. 

CHRIST'S RANGE OF MIRACLES EXTENDED 
THROUGH NATURE SUPERNATURALLY. 

I 

Christ's range of miracles extended 

Through nature with authority. 
He, instantly, her laws suspended. 

When there ^ He dried the fruitless tree. — 

II 
When once ^ the winds broke from the mountains. 

Near by the Sea of Galilee, 
And everywhere from their deep fountains 

The waters rose surprisingly; 

III 
When, forthwith, wave on wave was rolling 

With steadily increased uproar. 
And boatmen every power controlling 

Their storm-tossed craft, lost more and more; 

IV 

When 'midst those waves one boat was trying 
To keep with might its steadiness. 

As Christ asleep ^ in it was lying — 

Nought feeling of the crew's distress; — 



When His own for deliverance sighing, — 
As frightful waves dashed overboard. 

Awakened Him for safety crying: 

" O Lord, we perish, save us. Lord ! " * 

^Mat. 21: 19. 2 Mark 4: 37 ff.; Mat. 8: 24-27. 'Mat. 
24. *Mat. 8: 25. 



Part IV. 3 1 

VI 

When Christ's disciples greatly trembled 
At that severe storm's rage and threat. 

And all before Him there assembled. 
To show their fear in timorous fret: — 

VII 

And Christ looks calmly at the weather 
And answers, — ere aught else He saith. 

To join advice and shame together, — 
" Why fear ye, ye of little faith ? " ^ 

VIII 

What contrast between Christ's composure 

And His disciples' fearful fright 
In like temptation and exposure. 

All seizing there with equal might ! — 

IX 

Unmoving like a rock-bound tower, 

Christ there withstood the winds and all. 

Whilst that storm in its raging power 
Those made of fear the victims fall. — 

X 

Then Christ the winds and sea commanded 
That they be still, — and they obeyed! — 

That miracle sure faith demanded. 

Much faith in Christ it there conveyed ! "^ — 

1 Mat. 8: 26. 2 Mark 4: 41; Mat. 8: 27. 



32 The God-Man. 



XI 

The ear ' there, from its body parted. 

Healed, when Christ touched it, instantly. — 

To moistened earth ^ Christ strength imparted 
To heal blind eyes, that they could see, 

XII 

When washed with water, ^ Christ was giving 
The power to open and make whole 

To a man, till then in blindness living. 

Whom thus He gladdened heart and soul.* — 

XIII 

The laws of nature Christ suspended 
When He was walking on the sea,^ 

To Peter the same power extended. 

Storm-tossed, — he there was like a tree. — 

XIV 

For "by the wind afraid " appearing 
And "Lord, O save me," crying out. 

He sank; but Christ him caught — him cheering 
Though upbraiding him: "Why didst thou 
doubt?" 

XV 

All these great miracles are proving — 
Attesting Christ's God-sovereignty — 

That He, the world's Lord,* could be moving 
In it like God's air — frank and free ! 

^ Luke 22: 50. ^ John 9: 6. ^ John 9: 7. *John 9: 30 fF. 
^Mat. 14: 22-33; Mark 6: 45-52; Luke 6: 14-21. ^John i: 
1-3 etc., etc. 




JESUS SAVING PETP:R IlioM SINKING 
Matt. 14: 31 



Part IV. 35 

XVI 

There at the miracle of raising 

Dead Lazarus ' from his dark grave. 

All that man could do toward upraising 

The dead, Christ blest, when charge He gave 

XVII 

To those. He near the grave was finding 
And said: •' Take ye the stone away; " ^ — 

And then: "Be ye the clothes unbinding " ' — 
Which wrapt around the body lay; — 

XVIII 

To God uplooking for His blessing, 

'Mid heart-felt grief, most deeply moved. 

The dead with powerful voice addressing, 
Christ's efforts superhuman proved! 

XIX 

According with the four days * lying 

Already in that grave interred. 
Such strength divine Christ was supplying 

To Lazarus as new life conferred! — 

XX 

The dead, the voice of Christ thus hearing, 
"Came forth;" — raised from the dead was 
found ! — 

They saw him in full life appearing. 

All clothes bound 'round him still unbound; " — 

^John II: 1-54. 2 John 11 : 39. *John ii: 44. *John 
II: 17, 39. *John II: 44 fF. ^John ii: 44. 



36 



The God-Man. 



To loosen these God's Son was leaving 
To sceptics who might be about. 

That Lazarus in their care receiving 

They free their mind from every doubt. 



How faintly ^ have some poets striven 

To glorify Christ's miracles. 
Though, God-like, He in them has given 

Divine proof of His oracles, 

^Alfred Tennyson, e. g., in ' In Memoriam ' (considered his 
best and longest religious poem) concerning Lazarus* resurrection 
fictitiously and sceptically says in Canto 3 1 : 

" When Lazarus left his charnel-cave, 
And home to Mary's house return'd, 
Was this demanded — if he yearn'd 

To hear her weeping by his grave ? 

' Where wert thou, brother, those four days ? * 
There lives no record of reply. 
Which telling what it is to die 

Had surely added praise to praise."— 

" Behold a man raised up by Christ ! 
The rest remaineth unreveal'd; 
He told it not, or something seal'd 
The lips of that Evangelist." 

Compare also Canto 96, where disregarding Christ's rebuke to 
doubting Thomas (John 20: 26 fF. ) who seeing the risen Christ 
and testing the wounds in his hands and side belie'ving/y exclaimed: 
'• My Lord and my God," he still unbelievingly declares: 

" You tell me, doubt is Devil-born. 
I know not," etc., etc. 

*' There lives more faith in honest doubt 

Believe me, than in half the creeds." etc., etc. 



Part IV. 37 



When bitter enemies objected 

That sins to pardon He presumed. 

The siclc man's healing He effected 

By a change ' of words He at once assumed. — 

And Robert Browning in his ' An Epistle ' also writes fictitiously 
concerning the miracle of Lazarus' resurrection another's estimate, 
saying: 

" 'Tis but a case of mania — subinduced 
By epilepsy, at the turning point 
Of trance prolonged unduly some three * days: 
When by the exhibition of some drug 
Or spell, exorcization, stroke of art 
Unknown to me and which 'twere well to know, 
The evil thing out-breaking all at once 
Left the man whole and sound of body indeed," — etc. 

" The man — it is one Lazarus, a Jew, 

Sanguine, proportioned, fifty years of age," etc. 

" This grown man eyes the world now like a child." etc. 

And what Henry W. Longfellow in his ' Christus ' of Lazarus* 
resurrection says is this: 

" He hath called Lazarus of Bethany 

Out of his grave and raised him from the dead.'* 

" The people say that here in Bethany 
He hath raised up a certain Lazarus, 
Who had been dead three * days." 

* Mat. 9: 4 fF. 



* Lazarus had been dead "four days," when Christ raised him 
from the dead (John 11 : 39). 



38 'The God-Man. 



XXIV 

To Martha Christ said — all foreseeing — 
" Thy brother dead shall rise again. 

The Life and Resurrection being 

Through me, by faith life he'll regain." ^ — 

XXV 

Death of man's body comes by reason 

Of sin,^ which is apostasy 
From God, or man's soul's spiritual treason 

Against God, to be falsely free.' — 

XXVI 

To those in Christ, God's Son, believing, 

Christ is the fountain of full life. 
Since they in death, e'en, are receiving 

The life with endless blessings rife.* — 

XXVII 

Christ Lazarus knew and loved * him dearly. — 
At His love's retrospect " Christ wept," * 

He raised' him — His love's seal most clearly — 
Though he in death o'er •♦ four days " slept.® — 

XXVIII 

All circumstances manifested 

This miracle's sublime degree. 
It Christ's divinity attested 

And proved His God-like majesty. 

ijohn 11:23 ff. etc. ^ Rom. 5: 12, 14, 19 etc. 'Rom. 6: 
zo-23 etc. *John ii: 25 fF. etc., etc. ^John ii: 3. ^John 
II: 35. ''John II: 43, 44. ^john II: 17, 39. 




THE RAISINCi UF JAIKl aS UAL'GHTER 
Matt. 9: 25 



Part IF. 41 

XXIX 

More power was needed evidently 

In this than in a case, where one 
Was newly dead, and words, said gently. 

The dead raised, as the widow's son,^ 

XXX 

To whom, — first her, with "Weep not," 
greeting, — 

Christ said: " I say to thee, arise." 
" And he arose," — Christ's summons meeting, — 

" And all filled fear " ^ — 'mid great surprise; 

XXXI 

As Jairus' daughter,^ the death-laden, 

•* Though she was dead," when in repose 

Christ her addressing: '♦ Rise, O maiden," 
*• She " — like a rose blown down — 
'* arose." — 

XXXII 

Though here * the contexts might be admitting 

Each as a cataleptic case. 
Where Christ's hand's touch, or voice befitting. 

The apparent dead from sleep did raise. — 

XXXIII 

But could Omniscience surely knowing 
The coma, wherein Lazarus lay — 

If death's resemblance clearly showing — 
Still metaphorically say: ^ 

' Luke 7: 11-16 etc. 2Luke7:i6. ^ Mat. 9: i8 ff. ; Mark 
5: 2.2, 35 fF.; Luke 8: 49 ff. * In those miracles of resurrections 
from the dead. ^ John 11:4. 



42 'The God-Man. 



XXXIV 

♦' Our friend's disease is not to dying. 

But for God's glory, verily. 
That it God's Son be glorifying? " — 

Or could but metaphor this be: 

XXXV 

*' He sleeps, our friend, but I am going 

That out of sleep him I awake ' ' ^ 
The power o^ God through His Son show- 



Whereas " all of his death He spake 



p >> 3 



^ John 1 1 : 1 1 . 2 John 11:4. * John 1 1 : 13 S. 



V 

AS <'SON OF GOD" CHRIST WOP.KED MIRACLES 
IRRESPECTIVE OF THE LAWS OF THIS 
PHYSICAL WORLD. CHRIST'S SUPER- 
NATURAL ORIGIN TRANSCENDS 
ALL MIRACLES. 
I 
Though nature's laws thus are expanding. 

Perchance exceptions to admit. 
It must be stated notwithstanding 
That laws exceptions ne'er permit! 

II 

Christ's miracles were certain breaches 
Of nature's laws ; each did suspend 

When it the general \z.\n o'er-reaches 
To gain a wiser, nobler end.^ 

Ill 
It is this subject ill befitting 

Adducing reasons misinformed 
In bringing arguments admitting 

That God's Son miracles performed 

IV 

And state, that this world is constructed 

On law-excepting principles. 
And from wrong premises deducted 

Give reasons for Christ's miracles.^ — 

V 

The physical world nowhere is showing 
To law exceptions in its spheres. 

No law a better rule bestowing 
Than in the general law appears. 



'John 6: 26 fF. etc. ^ The primary reason for Christ's miracles 
is this, that He had authority to work miracles as the Son of God, 
He Himself declaring: " I must work the works of Him that ser.t 
me." (John 9: 4; 4; 34 cLc.y 



44 '^he God-Man. 

VI 

When water, or some fluid, freezing. 
Instead of growing dense, compact. 

And heavier, — all contraction ceasing, — • 
Swells and gets lighter, as to fact : 

VII 

No law of nature is requiring 

That ice, formed on the top, must sink. 

For sunken ice more layers acquiring 

Must soon make ice-mounts, link by link ; 

VIII 

For frozen water is remaining 

On top,' conformed to nature's law ;^ 

And water still 'neath the ice maintaining 
Its fluid state prevents the awe 

IX 

Which followed, if the ice were sinking. 
And filled with blocks of ice one saw 

All streams — the ocean interlinking — 
Which only many suns could thaw. — 

X 

Christ's wonders were not violations 
Of nature's laws ; they rather proved 

To excel through God-like operations. 
By which all ills He at once removed. — 

' As ice has a density of about .09, one ninth of its volume 
floats abo've the water. 

* The reason that ice formed on the top of water iinh not, is not 
an exception, as some think, but it is in full accord with nature's 
laiv, because its density is kss than that of water. 



Pari V. 45 

XI 

He nature's laws aside was setting 

The supernatural to reveal. 
And thus a heavenly aim begetting. 

He God^s ^///wrought for zvoe^ or weal? 

XII 

He nature's courses oft^ suspended. 
Whilst drawing the earthly veil aside. 

And nature with a moral * blended 

That God's power might be magnified. 

XIII 

A miracle ^ thus interfering 

With this or that of nature's dow'r 

That facts, unheard of, were appearing 
Exhibiting almighty ® pow'r, 

XIV 

Should yet be incongruent never 

With Him, who all things did create,'' 

Though puzzling to man's best endeavor 
To find some reason adequate. 

•Mat. 8: 32 etc. ^Mat. 9: 4 ff. etc. 'John 11: 44; Acts 2: 
22 etc., etc. * John 6:6, 25-41 etc. ^ " Those rightly are to be 
termed miracles which are wrought by divine power apart from the 
order, usually observed in nature," argues Thomas Aquinas (Con. 
Gentiles II. 102). ® In the Wisdom of Solomon (19: 6) the 
author remarkably describes how at the passage of the Red Sea all 
nature in its variety was created anew, that it might serve the 
LORD'S purposes for the safe deliverance of His people Israel and 
for the severe punishment of their enemies, the Egyptians. ' John 
I: 3 etc., etc. 



46 'J'he God-Man. 



XV 

That man, besides bread, too, be living 
By beauty, seems God's law to be. 

Since he for beauty has been giving 
To man great sensibility. — 

XVI 

The miracle bread multiplying,^ 

And water into wine refined," 
The beautiful was nullifying. 

Which God to corn and vine assigned. — 

XVII 

But though a loss, as all reflection 
On nature's work abruptly ceased. 

The miracle yet in perfection 

Mature fruit, instantly increased. — 

XVIII 

The gain it, therefore, was producing. 
Was from our human standpoint great ; 

The end, for which Christ it was using. 
Was yet of infinite more weight. — 

XIX 

Wherefore to those, who had been eating 
Those loaves increased and had been fed. 

With emphasis Christ was repeating 
That He is the divine life-bread.' 

^ Mat. 14: 15-21; Mark 6: 35-44; Luke 9: 12-17; }°^^ ^'• 
5-14. 2john 2: i-ii. 3john 6: 35, 48 etc. 



Part V. 47 

XX 

Earth's beauty, even from beginning 

When seed is sown, in growths expressed. 

Till one in harvest fruit is winning. 
By miracles appears suppressed ; — 

XXI 

The smallest and the slow unfolding 
Of blade and stem and ear, and each 

Leaf, flower and fruit, whilst them beholding. 
The soul of man divine truths teach ; ^ — 

XXII 

The blossoms and the fragrant flowers. 
The shades of foliage green and bright. 

Amid refreshing dews, and showers 

Of rain, fill men's heart with delight.^ — 

XXIII 

The thoughts on heavenly things suggested 
By walking through a harvest field,' 

Or vineyard with ripe fruit invested, 
A miracle will hardly yield. — 

XXIV 

Experience of full reliance 

Upon the Lord and solid Rock,* 
Gained in long sufferings, find defiance 

In miracles, — to faith a shock. — 

^Mat. 6: 28, 29 etc., etc. ^ Psalm 104: 10-15 ^f^., etc. 
•Jofin 4: 35 fF. etc. * Isa. 26: 4 etc., etc. 



48 The God-Man. 



XXV 

Christ out of nothing naught effected. 

His miracles a base required : 
The dead were to be resurrected. 

All sick healed, as true faith ^ desired. 

XXVI 

Christ power divine e'er was applying 
To heal all sick and raise all dead. 

But Satan's prayer He was denying 

And out of stones would make no bread ! * 

XXVII 

To senseless wishes Christ objected 

And would no miracles perform. 
Desires oi faith He ne'er neglected. 

To cries for help He calmed each storm. 

XXVIII 

Christ's miracles oft were perverted 
By those who could not comprehend 

How He in them God's power exerted. 
Whilst this to them did not extend.* 

XXIX 

As natural texts to spiritual speeches 
Christ's oracles * like God's voice rang 

That whom through faith His gospel reaches 
Should, saved ^ from sin, lose his heart's pang.® 

^Mat. 9: 27 fF. etc. 2 Mat. 4: 1-4. ^ For want of faith, John 
6: 41; 7: 12, 21, 43 etc., etc. *John 6: 44 ff.; 7: 16 ff.; 12: 44 
ff. etc., etc. 5 Luke 5: 18 ff.; John 8: 31 ff. etc., etc. ^ Luke 
8: 485 19: 20; John 9: 25, 31, 38 etc. 



Part V. 49 

XXX 

But who is capable of telling 

How many ^ men Christ has made whole. 
How many His words were repelling ^ 

From faith in Him to save their soul ? — 

XXXI 

What earthly flowers He obliterated ? — ■ 

What processes of growth ^ He o'erstepped ? — . 

What fancies through Him were created ? — 
What wild dreams into men's minds crept ? * — 

XXXII 

Of all God's miracles transcended 

In matchless worth the miracle : 
" God''s Son made Jlesh,'''' ^ — to heaven ascended,^ 

Men' 5 Saviour, Immanuel.'' 

XXXIII 

This miracle of Incarnation 

Itself in Christ did manifest 
Through His divine unique salvation 

As the sublimest and the best. 

XXXIV 

Christ's work and works were well succeeding ! 

"In Christ's name bowed the devils e'en," ^ 
Christ's might was Satan's power exceeding ! 

"As lightning Satan fell from heav'n ! " — 

'John 8: 31 ff. etc., etc. ^John 7: 12, 21 etc. 'Mark 10: 
18 ff.; Mat. 19: 17 fF. *Mat. 20: 20 fF. ^John i: 145 Mat. i: 
21 ff. etc. ^Acts i: 9-12. 'Mat. i: 23 etc. ^ Luke 10: 17, 
J 8 etc. 



50 "the God-Man. 



XXXV 

God's love in Christ now culminateth 
In this, that who is '* born again " ^ 

And by true faith participateth 

In God's love's gift ^ shall heaven obtain. 



Men's troubles to compassion moving 

Christ's heart so that He wept,^ groaned, 
sighed. 

His strength e'en to the utmost* proving. 
Their woes beholding on each side : 

XXXVII 

Christ's love exhaustless is revealing ; 

His was self-sacrificing strife. 
Through bitt'rest death His labours sealing 

Imparting men ** eternal Ufe-^'' * 

XXXVIII 

His foes and sinners pardon giving® 

Till '* It is finished," ' He had said, — 

As God's Son ever to be living 

" With God who raised Him from the dead." ^ 

ijohn 3: 3 ff. etc. ^john 3: 16 etc., etc. ^John 11: 35, 38; 
12: 27; Luke 19: 41 etc. * Luke 22: 43. ^ John 3:16 etc., etc. 
^Luke 23: 34, 43. 'John 19: 30. *Acts 2: 24, 32-36; 5: 30, 
31 etc., etc. 



VI 

CHRIST MEETS THE OBJECTIONS TO HIS POWER 
WORKING MIRACLES. OTHER OPPO- 
NENTS TO CHRIST MENTIONED 
FROM EARLY TIMES. 

I 

The objections which Christ's power disputed 
As *' God's Son" to work miracles,' 

Christ e'er with arguments strong refuted 
By uttering striking oracles. 

II 
•♦If I," said He, — whom ye're accusing — 

** Cast out the devils through their chief. 
By whom, then, do your children, — using 

My power, — cast devils out ? " — In brief: 

III 

** If Satan does this, he's divided. 

And how, then, shall his kingdom stand ? — 

But if I'm through God's Spirit guided. 
To you God's kingdom is at hand ! " * — 

IV 

A heathen,' too, the cry was raising 
Against God's Son, the Christ, as one 

Who wonders wrought, another * praising. 
Who similar wonder-works had done. 

V 

"Yet we are not," he says, '* him claiming 
A God, but man, by gods beloved. 

Although the Christians are proclaiming 
Their Jesus as a God ; " — approved !^ 

^ Mat. 12: 24-28; Mark 3: 22-27; Luke 1 1 : 15-22 etc. 
2 Mat. 12: 28; Mark I: i 5 etc. ^ Hierocles, whose book and chief 
arguments are known from the extracts in the refutation by Euse- 
bius in his history of the Primitive Christian Church. Celsus, 
Hierocles and Julian were some of the foremost heathen enemies 
of Christianity from the middle of the second to the fourth 
century. * Appolonius of Tyana in Cappadocia, (Encyclop. 
Brit. 9th Edit., vol. xi, p. 708). ^ Coloss. 2: 9 etc., etc. 



52 The God-Man. 



Just this : Christ is God'' s Son .'^ For ever 
Perplexed His foes as stumbling block 

In their assaults and fierce endeavor 
To crush this adamantine Rock. 



Few through the " Dark " and " Middle Ages '* 
Rose 'gainst the miracles, Christ wrought. 

But through two centuries past, some sages 

Soon here, soon there, advanced the thought,' 



vin 

The true ideal in Christ giving, — 
The nature human and divine 

He perfectly on earth was Hving, — 
*' Man's reason could alone define.'* 



ijohn 10: 35-38 etc., etc. 

* Spinoza (in his twenty-first letter), Reimarus (in his work on 
Natural Religion ), Kant (in his ' Religion within the limits of 
mere Reason,' 2nd Edition, p. 73 fF. etc. ) declared something like 
this : Every man must strive to know Christ as the highest ideal of 
a perfect man, not by exterior history-knowledge, but by reason- 
knowledge, and this ideal of a God-well-pleasing humanity is 
innate in human reason, to which one-self to elevate is the duty of 
every man, not so much by personal faith in Christ, as by striving 
to make one-self like Christ, etc. 



Part VI . 53 

IX 

But Christ's life humanly dissected, 

Moreo'er, on the pragmatic base. 
To which some men's lives are subjected. 

Who have adorned the human race. 



X 

And in Christ's life but that including 

What human is and natural. 
The supernatural excluding : 

Must make His power miraculous fall.* 



^ Lessing, e. g., (since 1770 Librarian of the ducal library in 
Wolfenbuettel) in the so-called ' Wolfenbuettel Fragments by an 
unknown,' published, in reality, fragments (though he did not 
agree with their contents) from the written work of Reimarus 
concerning Natural Religion, and which fragments, especially in the 
part published 1777, contained such mighty attacks upon the Bible 
and Christianity, that Hesz, e. g., in the edition of 1779 of his, 
since 1768 published ' Life-history of Jesus,' plainly indicated that 
his faith regarding the miraculous in Christ's life, more or less, was 
rationalistically infected. — It needs, however, to be stated, that 
Lessing, in response to many severe criticisms, answered, saying, 
e. g. : "As there must be storms in nature to purify the atmosphere, 
notwithstanding the fearful destructions following their course, so 
likewise these seemingly severe attacks can neither injure the Bible, 
nor true Christianity, but on the contrary, serve the good purpose 
of sifting the wheat from the chaff," etc. 



54 The God-Man. 



XI 

One/ therefore, "in Christ's life and teaching 

Religion's essence," did discern 
** Instead of miracles " — ^beseeching : 

•* Let us to know God's kingdom learn." 

XII 

As thus his faith somewhat was shaken 
And clipping his seraphic thought. 

He but as " t^pes of truths " had taken 
The " miracles " which Jesus wrought. 

XIII 

To him Christ's " wonder of wine-making " 
Was •* type of greater than John's ^ pow'r ; " 

And '* Lazarus' wonderful awaking " 
Meant "Jesus' resurrection-hour."^ 

^ Herder, one of the greatest educators and theologians of the 
1 8th century in Germany. ^John the Baptist. ^ The miracle of 
Christ's resurrection, Herder fully believed, saying: " Faith now can 
boldly exclaim: What do I care, whereby God has brought Christ 
back into life ? Sufficient, He returned into life and showed 
Himself to His ownj the story truthfully is told and is neither deceit 
nor fable." 

Note. — Goethe, one of Herder's best friends, was in full accord 
with Herder's belief regarding Christ's resurrection, which is proved 
by his most artistic dactylic ' Easter Chorus' in ' Faust' (in my 
translation Vol. I, pp. 43, 44) beginning: 

Christ' is arisen ! ( " Christ' ist erstanden ! 

Joy ( Praise) to the Mutable * Freude dem Sterblichen,* 
Whom the pollutable,^ Den die verderblichen,^ 

Moving,* imputable^ Schleichenden,* erblichen * 

Ills* did imprison. Maengel* umwanden.") 

' The ist, 5th and other lines in this chorus are based on the old 
German hymn : " Christ (lor Christus) ist erstanden," i. e., Christ is 
risen. ' Meaning tnortal, referring to Christ's mortal body. * Cor- 
ruptible, perishable, or pollutable, but never " unmerited," as Hedge 
and Bayard Taylor following, incorrectly translated. * In a medical 
sense, moving like poison, working corruption. ^Inheritable or 
imputable, but not " inherited," as Hedge and Bayard Taylor follow- 
ing, incorrectly translated. * Frailties investing also Christ's human 
body. 



Part VI . 55 

XIV 

The endeavor critics were pursuing. 

From early to our present time. 
In varied forms it e'er renewing. 

Aimed Christ to rob of power sublime, 

XV 

By miracles to show God's glory, 

As never a mere man has done. 
And to proclaim the gospel's story 

That Jesus is the Christ, Goa* s Son, 

XVI 

Whom God the Father had been sending ' 
That He His saving work should do. 

And who to heaven again ascending,^ 

God's work being done,^ to God withdrew.* 

XVII 

Thus miracles one ^ was denying 

As philosophically untrue 
And great disharmony implying 

In God's laws, from a rational view ; 

ijohn 17: 3, 4, 8, 21, 23 etc., etc. ^ Mark 16: 19; Luke 
24: 51; Acts 1 : 2, 9, 10 etc. ^ John 17: 4 etc. *John 17: 11, 
13; 14: 12, 28, etc. * Spinoza, the pantheist ( at the close of the 
17th centur)') says in ' Tract. Theol. Pol.' VI. — If we admit the 
miracles as true — " We must presume that God has created nature 
and her laws and rules so inadequate, that, often, He must assist 
her to be preserved, etc., and this," he concludes, " I consider to 
be a very ur.reaionahle conclusion." And in his 21st letter he 
declares regarding Christ: " For salvation it is not necessary to know 
Christ after the flesh, but with that eternal Son of God, namely, 
the di-vine fFiiJom, which in all things especially in the human 
heart ( or mind) appears, and in excellent form in yesus Christ has 
appeared, it is another thing ; for without this none, indeed, will 
obtain salvation, because tliis alone teaches what is true and false, 
good and evil." — 



56 The God-Man. 

XVIII 

Though otherwise ' he was admitting 
That in Christ Jesus had appeared 

" God's wisdom greatly," — thus befitting 
He e'en himself God's Son revered. — 

XIX 

The sceptic's^ mind with doubts pervaded. 

Found " Miracles improbable. 
Since nature's laws, by * change ' invaded. 

Be wholly inconceivable." — 

XX 

No moral kingdom they were knowing ; 

They apprehended not Christ's strife. 
Through wonders* God's ways to be showing. 

And men to fit for heavenly hfe. — 

XXI 

The Rationalists * have been denying 

That Jesus miracles has wrought. 
Since natural means He was applying, 

♦< By which," they said, "He ever sought 

XXII 

" Through sympathetic friendly feeling 
And medical skill. He thus applied. 

As some, skilled in the art of healing. 

To heal all, who through faith Him tried." 

^ In his 2 1 St letter (see note 5 on previous page). ^ Hume, 
about the middle of the 1 8th century. ^ Mark i: 14, 25, 26, 34, 
39, 41, 42 etc., etc. ; John 9 : 4 etc. * The Rationalists are 
represented mostly by Dr. Paulus in his commentary, published 
1804, and in his ' Life of Christ,' published 1828. 



Part VI . 57 

XXIII 

The Bible-records they were reading 

To find of miracles no trace 
Their exegesis ne'er conceding 

That " miracles could e* er take place.^* 

XXIV 

Thus they presumed that "Jesus rather 

Walked on the shore " — as they could see, 

*' Since from the records they this gather: 
" He walked beyond,^ not on the sea." 

XXV 

Some eminent Rationalist,^ believing 
That Christ was human and divine. 

Held, that " each patient was receiving 
From the * divine ' in Christ benign 

1/. e.. He walked beyond on the shore, they rendering epi, like 
the Latin Bible (Vulgata), "super," beyond or above, ^e.g.^ 
Schleiermacher, Ewald etc., etc., and also, since 1901, Prof. Dr. 
Harnack, of Berlin, Germany, who in his late work, "What is 
Christianity ?" notably excludes everything that is miraculous from 
the Bible, and in his opening chapter faintly stating : " The Chris- 
tian religion is something simple and sublime, it means one thing 
and one thing only — Eternal life in the midst of time by the 
strength and under the eyes of God," gives to the Christian 
religion an entirely different character and destiny than that which 
Jesus Christ Himself states, declaring : (John 17: iff.) " Father, 
glorify thy Son, that the Son may glorify thee : even as thou 
gavest him authority over all flesh, that whatsoever thou hast given 
him, to them he should give eternal life. And this is life eternal, 
that they should knoiv thee the only true God and him ivhom thou 
didst send, e-ven yesus Christ. ^^ 



58 The God-Man. 

XXVI 

And powerful forces which imparted 

At once of strength such new-born wealth 

That in man's sickly organs started 
A process of quick normal health." ^ 

XXVII 

Thus one ^ most confidently stated 
That " If within this form is brought 

What to Christ's miracles' related. 
Its meaning easily is caught; 

XXVIII 

But to explain, what's not admitted 
Within this form" — though confident 

Be the decision, 'tis submitted, — 
** Great difficulties will present." * 

^ Schleiermacher in his lectures on the Life of Jesus, still unpub- 
lished, but quoted and verified by many, who heard them. 
(Strausz' 'Life of Jesus,' vol. Ill, pp. 23-28). Hase likewise 
states : " Vielleicht alle Heilungen Jesu beschrankten sich au6 
Gebiet, wo die Macht des Willens iiber den Korper bemerkbar 
wird," i. e., Perhaps all the healings of Jesus were limited to the 
sphere, where the power or influence of the wiU (of another) 
over the body is observed. — ' Life of Jesus ' § 48, 4th Edition. 
' Schleiermacher in his lectures on the Life of Jesus. ^ Christ's 
miracles recorded in the gospels of the N. Test. *e. g., Christ's 
resurrection and all the resurrections from the dead, attributc<f to 
Christ. For, neither Schleiermacher, nor his followers, believed 
those resurrections, but explained them as mere " apparent deaths." 



Part VI . ^g 

XXIX 

One,^ too, to prove was vainly trying — 

Though as a ma7i he Christ much praised'' — 

By mere presumptions all denying 

That Christ, as God's Son, dead \iz.s raised. 

XXX 

Of Lazarus raised,^ he was contriving 

A story of intrigue this wise: 
'* Recovered, ere Christ was arriving 

They Lazarus buried in disguise." — 

XXXI 

** When Christ came, Martha herself tasking 
To lead, met him ; * when they arrive,^ — 

To see once more his friend — Christ asking. 
When moved the stone, met him alive." ® 

XXXII 

But was to such a fraud Christ yielding ? — 
That critic says : •* Like some,' instead 

Of 'gainst the rage for wonders wielding 
His power, Christ homage to it paid." ® — 

' Renan, ' Vie de Jesus,' p. 359. ^JustasProf. Dr. Harnack 
in his book, ' What is Clinstianity ? ' to a high degree bestows great 
praise upon Christ as a man and a teacher, etc. ^John ii: 44. 
*John II: 20. * At the grave John 11 : 38. •> Renan 'Vie de 
Jesus,' p. 359. ' He means, e. g.. Abbot Bernard cf Clairvaux 
and Franciscus of Assisi ( near Naples ), a pious monk, both of 
whom performed many marvelous deeds, and for this reason 
received many extraordinary honors from the people in their 
immediate neighborhood and from strangers who came to see them. 



6o The God-Man. 



XXXIII 

Then are those critics^ who' re presuming 
" Mere myths " ^ to be, what is confest 

Of Christ, and thus e'er are assuming 
That Christ stands not the critics' test.' 

^ These are not the so-called ' Higher Critics ' who seek con- 
scientiously and devoutly by proper literary and historical investiga- 
tions and tests to ascertain the genuine texts of the Sacred 
Scriptures, but, on the contrary, their opposltes, who under the 
same name, rather more or less by unscrupulous and profane 
methods, mostly by mere presumptions and vain assumptions 
eliminating boldly the supernatural from all the prophecies and 
miracles etc., degrade the Bible-records to the level of mere human 
productions etc. These critics had their origin already in the early 
part of the i8th century, e. g., in the English deist Woolston, 
conspicuous through his blasphemous writings, especially in his 
attempts through his allegorical interpretations to undermine the 
reality of Christ's miracles, mostly in his six notorious ' Letters on 
the Miracles,' (published in London, first in pamphlets, between 
1727-1729). In the 19th century are especially notable, Bauer, 
and the so-called ' Tuebingen-School,'' on account of their destructive 
criticisms of many books of the whole Bible, and also, particularly, 
Strausz, in his philosophic-mythic 'Life of Jesus,' etc., and 
various other similar writers in our times, both in Europe and also 
in this country, altogether too numerous and too complicated in 
their statements and publications, to be mentioned further here. 
2 Strausz' ' Life of Jesus,' vol. Ill, p. 185 : "We leave to the 
Scriptures their miracles, but for us we look at them as mere myths,'^ 
^Strausz' ' Life of Jesus,' vol. III, e. g., p. 204 ff. etc. 



Part VI . 6 1 

XXXIV 

They searched Christ's life as pretext claiming 
To find the truth it can but show/ 

But Christ a "man " ^ alone proclaiming. 
They failed as God' s Son Him to ktiow. 



XXXV 

Whilst with the human in Christ dealing 
Preferringly, they avoid to allude 

To spiritual truths, Christ is revealing 
Of God and his great Fatherhood. 



XXXVI 

As " man " ^ alone, they e'er are claiming 
To judge Christ in His acts and words. 

To "heavenly things," He is proclaiming. 
No wisdom's key them light affords. — 

XXXVII 

They say: ** We're not as true receiving 
What Jesus of Himself does teach. 

Nor as divine can be believing 

What is beyond researches' reach." * 

* " The New Testament is the source, the only source from 
which we know the more accurate of Jesus," declares Strausz in 
' Life of Jesus,' vol. Ill, p. 6. * " For us Jesus either exists not 
at all, or only as maw," ( i. e., as homo, a mere human being — 
Mensch) etc. Strausz' 'Life of Jesus,' vol. Ill, p. 299. 
•Strausz' * Life of Jesus,' vol. Ill, p. 299 ff. etc. * Strausz' 
'Life of Jesus,' vol. Ill, p. 257 ff. etc. 



62 The God-Man. 



XXXVIII 

** The critics' work is wholly ended 
On things not to experience near; 

Things with the supernatural blended. 
Belong not to the critics' sphere." ^ 

XXXIX 

Though Christ's disciples stated clearly 
That Christ His miracles has done. 

One says: — impeaching them severely — 
** He never has performed e'en one; " 

^ These and similar expressions are constantly found, e. g., in 
Strausz' ' Life of Jesus,' in vols. Ill and IV, and in similar 
critical works. " Was sich in den Evangelien von der ueberna- 
tiirlichen Abkunft Jesu findet, ist fiir uns nicht vorhanden," i. e., 
What in the gospels is found of the supernatural origin of Jesus, is 
not existing for us. Strausz' ' Life of Jesus,' vol. Ill, p. 245. — 
Correspondingly, Dr. Briggs, in our times, has stated in his ' The 
Messiah of the Apostles,' p. 523 : " In all the various references 
of the Apostles Peter, James, Paul and John, to the incarnation 
of Christ, there is not a word or a suggestion of the virgin-birth 
of the gospel of the Infancy in Matthew and Luke," (wherein he 
follows the well-known disbelief of Schleiermacher in his ' Lectures 
of the Life of Jesus,' — Strausz' ' Life of Jesus,' vol. Ill, p. 26 if. ), 
and strangely concludes : " The virgin-birth cannot therefore be 
essential to the doctrine of the incarnation." But, when, e. g. , 
Paul declares : " God sent forth his Son, made (^l>orn, Rev. 
Version) of a ivoman'"'' (Gal. 4: 4), and when John positively 
states: "And the Word {logos^ ivas made flesh,'''' "became" 
(Rev. Version) [John i: 14] — (Compare Rom. i: 3, 4; 1 
Tim. 3 : 16 etc. ), there is emphatic evidence that "the virgin- 
birth of the gospel of the Infancy in Matthew and Luke ' ' is 
fully and most implicitly implied in all their expressive words. — 



Pari VI. 63 

XL 

'* For what of nature's laws we're knowing. 
He ne'er mere water '!vme could make; 

Nor start in morsels few such growing 
That men by thousands food could take; 

XLI 

Nor dead could raise; and that his healing — 

Impossible by miracle ^ — 
He wrought through sympathetic feeling 

Is possible and probable." 

XLII 

To all that Strausz said, one supposing 

It might to all of Christ apply — 
Faith weakened on small hope reposing — 

'* Strausz may be wrong," ^ said in reply. — 

XLIII 

From faith in Christ is generated — 
Howe'er alone in Christ-like way — 

Free use oi reason consecrated 

All truths of Goer s word ' to obey : 

^ Strausz' ' Life of Jesus,' vol. Ill, pp. 338 ff.; vol. IV, p. 169 
etc. ^ Robert Browning in ' Bishop Blougram's Apology ' says : 
" Why, to be Luther — that's a life to lead," etc. 
" He comes, reclaims God's earth for God, he says. 

Re-opens a shut book, and all is done," etc. 
" If he succeeded, nothing's left to do ; 

And if he did not altogether — well, 

Strausz is the next advance," etc. 
" He looks upon no future : Luther did. 

What can I gain on the denying side ? 

Ice makes no conflagration," etc. 
" Then add there's still that plaguey hundredth chance 

Strausz may he ivrong,'"'' etc. ^John 8; 32 etc, 



64 T^he God-Man. 

XLIV 

So Christ to faithful^ Jews was saying: 

"If in my word ye shall abide 
**The truth ye' 11 know and be displaying 

Such freedom as it will provide. — 

XLV 

So likewise faithful Paul advises: 

"Prove all things ;^^ "^ "Judge ye what I 
say,-'"'— 
These counsels, surely, none surprises 

Who does to God's word homzge pay. — 

XLV I 

When, therefore, Christ His followers urges 

^11 Scriptures * well to comprehend, 
Aod God's ways him who God's word searchei 
■* - To his conviction surety lend, 

XLVII 

That all this world's unique creation 
A supernatural Cause has wrought: 

Why should not Christ work man' s salvation 
After God's plan in God' s word^ taught? ! — 

XLVIII 

Howe'er they felt their limitation ! 

For when Christ His existence puts 
Before* this earth's and world's creation, — 

Assuming God-like attributes, — 

1 John 8: 32 ff. etc. ^ i Thess. 5: 21. ^ i Cor. 10: 15, etc. 
*John 5: 39; Luke 24: 25 ff. etc. ^John 6; 17, zSj 17: 5, 24 
etc. J etc. 



Part VI. 65 

XLIX 

And of Himself most clearly stated: 

** / and the Father — God — are one ; " * 

** The work by thee communicated 

And given to me to do, Pve done,*^ ' — 

L 

One speaks of Christ thus estimated: 

'*A Jesus, who all this can say. 
From the historic standpoint rated. 

For us existeth in no way." * — 

LI 

That miracles Christ was performing. 
Thus, now and then some did dispute, 

Howe'er, the why things were conforming 
To ways, wherein Christ them had put — 

LII 

His mode ot operation * never 

A mortal could, nor may unseal; 
To know this, vain seems each endeavor, — 

The next world shall it all reveal ! ^ — 

^John 10: 30; 14: 10; 17: zi, 22 etc. *John 17: 4; 5: 19, 
a6, 27, 30 etc., etc. ^ Strausz' * Life of Jesus,' vol. Ill, pp. 
145, 258 etr..» etc. ^ Modus operandi. ^ Rev. 21 etc., etc. 



VII 

CHRIST'S APOSTLES, JEWISH PRIESTS, RULERS AND 
PHARISEES, AND THE SO-CALLED CHURCH- 
FATHERS NEAREST THE APOSTOLIC-AGE, 
BELIEVERS IN CHRIST AND HIS MIRACLES.— 
CHRIST THE ONLY SINLESS MAN.— HIS CON- 
SECRATION, BAPTISM IN JORDAN, CONQUEST 
OVER SATAN.— HIS TRANSFIGURATION. 
I 
That Christ's Apostles were believing 
That miracles — to Him assigned — 
By power of God ^ He was achieving 
In records clear they have defined, 

11 

And many they corroborated 

With marvelous unanimity.^ — 
At Pentecost they all have stated 

That Jesus, "C/^tr///," and "Lord,'' ' too, be. 

^John 14: loj Acts 2: 22 etc. ^ Many attempts have been 
vainly made to solve the Synoptical problem of numerous differ- 
ences in the accounts of miracles in the gospels by literary 
criticisms. 'Goethe to Eckermann,' vol. Ill, p. 371, gives his 
direct dogmatic testimony regarding Christ ( based on His works 
and words as well ), thus : "I consider the gospels genuine through- 
out, for in them is active the Image of a highness which proceeded 
from the '■Person of Christ,^ which is as of a di-vine nature, as 
the divine ever on earth hath appeared." — With his philosophic 
insight into the Gospels he therefore declares : 

" From heaven descending Jesus brought 
The gospel's everlasting writ. 
He ever it His followers taught ; 

A word divine, it moved and hit. 
Returning, He it took again. 

But they its sense had well maintained, 
And each one wrote — without refrain, 

As it in his mind he retained. 
Various. — 'Tis of no consequence, 

They had variety of sense. 
'Tis Christians' great sufficiency 

Till day-break of eternity." — (Vol. II of my trans 
lation of Goethe's Poems.) * Acts 2: 36 etc. 



Pari VII. 67 

III 

From acts of men of note, recorded 
By Christ's Apostles, one can see 
That Priests and Rulers had accorded 

Christ's worlcs full authenticity. 

IV 

That Ruler ^ thus to Christ was saying, 

" That thou God's teacher art, we know," — 

The Priests and Rulers faith betraying — 
" For ne'er a man these signs can show, 

V 

These mighty works which thou'rt performing. 
Except God be with him." — So, indeed. 

That Christ the minds had been transforming 
Of Priests and Rulers all concede.^ — 

VI 

And likewise Christian writers ^ living 

Close to the Apostolic days. 
Full homage in their works were giving 

To Christ as Son of God — always. 

'John 3: 1-21; 19: 39; 2: 23. ^John 12: 42; Acts 6: 7 etc., 
etc. 'The so-called Apostolic Fathers, i. e., the Christian writers 
who were to some extent contemporary with some of Christ's 
Apostles, e. g. , Clemens Romanus, Ignatius, Polycarp, etc., and the 
primitive or anti-Nicene fathers, e. g., Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, 
Origen, Cyprian, TertuUian, etc., and the post-Nicene fathers, e.g., 
Ambrose, Athanasius, Augustine, Basil, Chrysostom, Gregory the 
Great, Hilary, Jerome, etc., and others, e. g., Eusebius, the great 
historian, etc.; — as all were living near and some even in the 
Apostolic age and therefore were wholly conversant with such men 
(or their writings) as had lived in the days of some of Christ's 
Apostles, — all, full of faith and Christian heroism, confessed and 
also defended Christ and his mighty works and teachings, all 
showing that these were prominent subjects in the minds of leading 
Christians from the beginning in the Christian Church, 



68 "the God-Man. 

VII 

'Gainst heretics their faith defending 

In Him and in His miracles — 
Most valiantly for Him contending 

That He fulfilled His ^ oracles. 

VIII 

Christ's foes against Himself w^ere aiming 
Of sin Him charged and proved to see. 

But they said nought on His exclaiming: 
** Who of you of sin convicteth me ? " '— » 

IX 

Thus Christ was, as He oft was calling 
Himself, not " Son of man " ^ alone. 

But He Himself, since Adam's falling. 
The ideal sinless man^ has shown. — 

X 

Absorbed in thoughts and meditating 

On His sublime Messiah-sphere, 
God's Son Himself was consecrating 

Already there in His twelfth year.* 

XI 

In spirit strong, Christ grew in favor 

With God and men;® with wisdom filled 

His thirtieth year,^ 'twas His endeavor 
God's kingdom for all times to build.' 

iMat. lo: 16-39 etc., etc. "John 8: 46. ^john 8: 28 etc. 
*I Pet. 2: 22 etc., etc. ^ Luke 2: 46-52 etc. * Luke 2: 52. 
■J Luke 3: 23. ^Mat. 16: 18. 




THE BAPTISM OF CilRIST IN JORDAN 

" And in those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilder- 
ness of Judea. Then went out unto him Jerusalem and all Judea. and 
all the region round about Jordan; and they were l)aptized of him in the 
river Jordan. And Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was 
baptized of John in Jordan. And straightway coming up out of the 
water, he saw the heavens opened." — Matt. 3: 5.13,16; Mark 1 : 5,9,10 



Part VI I. 71 

XII 

His eighteen years of preparation — 
To which we have no further clue 

Than gives to us the information 

That He the Scriptures fully knew,' 

XIII 

Were, doubtless, years of meditation 
Most surely in God's holy word. 

Which, sun-like, of His high relation 
To God,^ full light should Him afford. 

XIV 

His peerless height of consecration 
Christ there at Jordan did express 

In that God-minded obligation: 

" Fulfilling every righteousness." ^ — 

XV 

There John the Baptist saw descending 
From heaven, in bodily form as dove. 

The Holy Spirit God was sending 
As pledge of his approving love; 

XVI 

And out of heaven replied the Father — 
Whilst Christ in spiritual powers increased. 

Straightway had stept out of the water: 

"This is my Son, in whom I'm pleased."* 

' Luke 4: 4; 24: 44 etc., etc. ^ Proverbs 8: 22 ff. etc. ; Dan. 
7: 13, 14, 18 etc. ^ Mat. 3: 15-17 etc. * Mat. 3: 17; Isa. 42: 
I etc. 



72 'the God-Man. 

XVII 

(If divers questions are arising 
What meant Christ's metamorphosis ' 

Through baptism, 2 whom should be surprising 
That his mind's change portrayed there is, 

XVIII 

When Christ, God's holy ' Son descended 

Into old Jordan's crystal flood 
And there baptized, stept forth commended: 

" This is my Son beloved," by God ? — 

XIX 

For His example Christ was giving 
That '* Whosoe'er in Him believes * 

And is baptized ' ' ^ — for God is living — - 
" In heaven the crown of life receives." • 

XX 

Christ's Church believers true embracing. 

Baptized like " His church's Head, e'en Christ, 

The question,^ therefore, is amazing: 

'^ To join Christ's Church, — but utibaptized.'* 

XXI 

For, if the Christ not hesitated, — 
Who no baptismal grace did need, — 

But still of powers participated. 

Which that old symbol guaranteed ? — 

* Spiritual change. ^ Mat. 3: i5ff.;Marki: 9, etc. 'Mat. 3: 

17, etc. ^ Rom. 10: 9-13, etc., etc. 'Mark 16: 16, etc., etc. 
* James i: 12; Rev. 2: 10, etc. ' Eph. i: 22; 4: 15; 5: 23; Col. 1: 

18. ^ This constituted for some time, not only in the "Baptist 
Congress," assembled 1902 in Boston, Mass., the puzzling question 
for debate, but also afterwards in some, especially the Baptist 
periodicals and newspapers; the question being at first; " Is 
Baptism Essential to Church Membership .'' " 



>» 7 



Part VII. J^ 



XXII 

And He thereafter instituted ' 

The Christian baptism for all time — 

Than which none can be substituted 
More holy, greater, more sublime: — 

XXIII 

Who would to a baptism be objecting 
Which Jesus Christ has used and knew,^ 

Or His great doctrine be rejecting: 
" Except a man be horn anew 

XXIV 

" He cannot see God's kingdom ever; " ^ — 

But as to this none had a clue, — 
Christ said: — to climax His endeavor 

" Be assured, ye must he horn anew, 

XXV 

" For that, born of the flesh — flesh being " — 
Must die * — " but spirit. Spirit-born, 

Is spirit " ' — which " death ^ ne'er is seeing," 
Returns to God,^ — " God's house ' to adorn." 

XXVI 

By all of which Christ indicated 

That all men ' must His converts he. 

Who, spiritually regenerated,' 
Will follow Him most faithfully. 

• Mat. 28: 19 etc. 2 John 4: 1 etc. ' John 3: 5 ff. ^ Gen. 3: 19 
ff. etc. 'John 3: 16 ff. etc. ^ Job 26: 4 etc. Eccles. 12: 7 etc. 
'John 14: iff. etc. « Gal. 3:26 ff. etc. ' Acts 9:18 ff. etc., etc. 



74 'The God-Man. 

XXVII 

When He to Nicodemus ' stated 
The spiritual new-hirth symbolized 

And ' water and the Spirit ' rated 
As means divinely authorized. — 

XXVIII 

Whilst John the Baptist's thoughts vpere turning 
To speeches ^ causing fear and awe, 

Christ, since baptized, like fire was burning 
In men's minds, who " His like ne'er saw." » 

XXIX 

As in His baptism manifested, — 
Where Christ as God's Son * did appear, — 
So Christ as God's Son is attested 
In all His following life's career. 

XXX 

There He Himself had consecrated 
To do and teach alone God's fFill,^ 

And this He fully demonstrated 

We may Christ see,' where'er we will. — 

XXXI 

Christ, therefore, often criticizing 

Strict Judaisms ' as not of God, 
And lustful 8 thoughts e'en stigmatizing 

Great sins: Christ's words hit like a rod. 



' John 3:5 ff. 2]viat. 4: 7-12 etc. ^ Mark 2: 12 etc. 'Marki: 
II etc. ^ John 6:38 etc. • i. e. in all the Gospels. 'Mark 7:1-23; 
Mat. 5:20 ff. etc. 8 Mat. 5:28 ff. etc. 



Part VII . 75 

XXXII 

Unsparing costliest lure-treasures, 

No matter what or who ' they be, 
And disregarding any measures 

Of scorn, 2 intrigues,' or enmity.* 

XXXIII 

'Twas this, that when Christ's foes were seeing 
That He as God's Son " great fame ^ gained," 

All in His speedy death ^ agreeing, 

Nor " realm," ' nor king they since retained! — 

XXXIV 

For, from the dead raised, Christ soon proving 
To hosts of men a wondrous change. 

They saw Christ's Cause, God's Kingdom moving 
Along new ways Christ did arrange, 

XXXV 

When Peter « hosts urged, after preaching: 
" Repent and he in Christ's name baptized," 

And Paul ' confirmed all, " boldly teaching: 
" All those baptized have put on Christ." — 

XXXVI 

Thus hosts of converts '" soon beginning 
To Christ their heart and soul to give, 

Christ's Church was hosts of members winning 
Who a " new-born Christian life did live." " 

'Mat. lo: 37 ff. etc. -Mat. 9: 3 fF. etc. * Mat. 22: i8 ff. etc. 
< Mat. 27: 18 etc. ^ Mark i: 22-27; John 11: 47 etc., etc. ^ John 
ig: 16 fT.; Mark 14: 64; Mat. 27: 25 etc. 'John 11:48. * Acts 2: 
38 ff. etc. 9 Rom. 6: 4 ff.; Col. 2: 12 ff.; Gal. 3: 27 ff. etc. '» Acts 
2; 38 ff.; 4:41; 5:14; 6: 7 etc., etc. " Rom. 14: 7-9 etc. 



76 The God-Man. 

xxxvn 
All men then should the Christ be hailing. 

Who still invites each: " Follow me;" ' 
Each answering Him: Thy Will prevailing, 

In all things, Lord, I'll follow Thee, — 

XXXVIII 

Till at the last I shall be meeting 
Thee in Thy upper Kingdom ^ there. 

When I'll attend " The Father's ' greeting 
On entering into heaven for e'er, — 

XXXIX 

And joyfully shall be observant 

Of words like these from God in heav'n: 

" Be welcome, good and faithful servant," * 

" Life's crown: " ^ " eternal life thee is giv'n." ') 

XL 

That voice ' from heaven seemed like a calling 
That Christ commence without repose, 

As Son of God His work appalling 

'Gainst sin and death, men's giant-foes, 

XLI 

Which Satan had been introducing, — 

First sin and " through sin death " on earth; 

When primitive men he was seducing 

To sin ' and " sin thus death " ' gave birth. — 



• Mat. 8: 22; 9: 9. ^ Luke 22: 16. ' John 14: 3, 12, 16, 24 ff.; 
15: 16,26; 16: 3, 10, 15, 17 ff.; 17:2 ff. etc. <Mat. 25:21 etc. 
' James i: 12; Rev. 2: 10 etc. ^ John 3: 16 etc. 'Mat. 3: 17 ff. 
"Gen. 3:4 ff, "Rom. 5; 12 ff. etc. 



Part VII. 11 

XLII 

'Twas Satan's pharisaic preaching — 
Which from the first ne'er saved one soul, — 

Pervaded by apostate teaching, 
That strove all men's hearts to control, 

XLIII 

When flatly he there contradicted 

The vpords which God Almighty said > 

And just the opposite predicted, — 
If follovi^ing his advice instead. 

XLIV 

" Ye shall not surely die," ' he stated, 

" Your eating thereof shall bestow 
You God-like views," he imprecated, 

" That good and evil ye shall know." — 

XLV 

" They ate; " ' and that was the beginning 

Of what still is earth's misery!* 
But " who in Christ believes, is winning 

" Eternal life," ^ as we'll soon see! — 

XLVI 

Resolved to make a firm attaining. 
The Spirit forthwith Christ did lead 

Into the wilderness ' for gaining 

God's fullest mind. His work to speed. — 

XLVII 

No thoughts than God's thoughts Christ persuaded 

To enter His messiah-sphere. 
His Godhead ' all His soul pervaded 

Throughout His whole Godlike career! — 

' Gen. 2: i6, 17. ^Gen. 3:4ff. = Gen. 3: 6. < Gen. 3: 7 flF; 
Rom.8:i8-24. ' John 3: 16 ff. etc., etc. ^ Mat. 4: i fit. etc. 'John 
10: 30; Mat. n: 27, etc. 



78 The God-Man. 



XLVIII 

As God-man ^ He sought perfect union 
With God His Father's Will and Light, 

And by most filial communion 

He strove to know His work aright. 

XLIX 

He undisturbed there meditated 

For forty days ^ on His career. 
And to Himself reiterated 

All He Himself did see and hear; ' 

L 

What wondrous things of Him were spoken,* 
The heavenly thoughts God did impart 

To Him, the God-man, and each token 
Of aid forthwith His work to start. — 

LI 

There was some sort of intimation. 
No doubt, of him, the archfiend, too. 

Of Satan, in the estimation 

Of foes to conquer and subdue.^ — 

Lll 

Christ hungered, when those days had ended; 

Then Satan, tempting, was on hand; 
*' If Thou'rt God's Son," — he recommended: 

" That these stones bread become, com- 
mand; " « 

* To build or to develop and to establish His church or the 
Kingdom of God or of heaven on earth, Christ had left as the 
eternal Word heaven and came on earth, and became the God-man 
or Son of God by taking the human nature, John i: i, 14J Rom. 
5: 15; I Tim. 2: 5; 3: 16 etc. ^ Mat. 4: z etc. ^ Mat. 3:16, 
17 etc. *Mat. I: 18 fF.; 2: II, 23 etc., etc. * Compare Job \\ 
6, 7; 2: 1-7. «Mat. 4: 3 etc. 



Part VII. 79 

LIII 

But Christ said, — his advice not heeding, — 

'* 'A man lives not by bread alone. 
But every word from God proceeding,' " 

"As it is written " ^ — and thus known. — 

LIV 

The tempter then God's Son was taking 

Into the holy city, where 
He from the temple's wing^ was making 

Proposals and thus did declare: ^ 

LV 

*♦ Cast Thyself down, if God's Son being — 
For it is written: ^ " * He shall give 

Charge to his angels,' " — they are seeing — 

<* < Concerning Thee,' " — and Thou shalt live; — 

LVI 

«* * They on their hands shall Thee be upbearing. 
Lest,' " — in whate'er surrounding thrown, — 

*< ' Thou haply dash ' " — perchance be tearing — 
" * Thy foot ' " — or hand — " * against a stone.' " 

LVII 

To this Christ said : "Again 'tis written: " * 

" * Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.' " — • 

The tempter with amazement smitten 
The third attempt tried, he had plod. — 

LVIII 

He took then Christ unto a mountain 
Exceeding high, where He could see 

From slopes, dales, towns, down to each fountain. 
What all the world's realms' glory be. 

* Deut. 8: 3 etc. * Mat. 4: 5; Luke 4: 9 etc. ^ Ps. 91: 11, 
IZ. * Deut. 6: 16. 



8o The God-Man, 

LIX 

"All these things I'll Thee give for ever. 
If Thou' It fall down and worship me," * 

Said Satan — feigning bold endeavor 
To assume a God-like sovereignty. — 

LX 

" Get thee hence, Satan ! " Christ first saying. 

Him recognizing instantly 
On his assumption — him betraying — 

That Christ his tool submissive be; 

LXI 

** For it is written," ^ He then stated, 

<' ' The Lord thy God ' " — none else deserve — • 

** * Him thou shalt worship ' " — unabated — 
•' 'And him, him only shalt thou serve.' " 

LXII 

" Then Satan left Christ and forthcoming 
Were angels ministering to Him " ' — 

This conquest praised as 'twas becoming, 
"All things created," Cherubim 

^ Mat. 4: 9 etc. 2 Deut. 6: 13; 10: 20 etc. 'Mat. 4: 10. 
Note. As John Milton in his famous Epic ' Paradise Lost * 
had made the arch-demon Satan the hero for his success depriving 
Man of his innocence and Eden, etc. , he felt obliged in his ' Para- 
dise Regained,' evidently, rather unscripturally, to ascribe praise 
from Angels of heaven to Jesus, the Christ and Son of God, 
before His public career as Saviour of Mankind, even before H* 
had accomplished His divine work of Redemption, and before H» 
had entered into heaven, stating : 

"And, as he fed, Angelic quires 
Sung heavenly anthems of his victory 
Over the temptation and the tempter proud : " — 
Milton quoting them also, prematurely, as having said : 

" Now thou hast avenged 
Supplanted Adam, and, by vanquishing 
Temptation, hast regained lost Paradise 
And frustrated the conquest fraudulent." 
(Paradise Regained, iv, 593-5; 606-10). 



Part VI I. 8 1 

LXIII 

And all in heaven, much later, singing 
To Christ enthroned His victory.' — 

The Spirit Christ then homeward bringing, 
Christ chose to dwell in Galilee.^ — 

LXIV 

According to the Writ foretelling: ' 
" Benighted people saw great light; 

To those in death's dark shadow dwelling 
Light did spring up in glory bright." — 

LXV 

Then 'twas, that God's Son was beginning* 
To preach : ** Heaven's kingdom is at hand. 

Repent ! " — and followers to be winning,* 
And great attention to command.® — 

LXVI 

And to fulfil His heavenly mission 

As Saviour of the human race. 
He taught,' of sins He gave remission,* 

Healed sick ones,' and the dead did raise.'" — 

LXVII 

He more than all the Prophets proving 
Himself the matchless Christ, God sent. 

In fearless zeal and vigor moving. 

He God's works wrought, where'er He went." 



^Rev. 5: 9-14 etc. ^ Mat. 4: 12-17 etc. ^ Mat. 4: 16; Isa. 
9: I, 2 etc. * Mat. 4: 17 etc. ^ Mat. 4: 18 etc. ^ jviat. 4: 24 
etc., etc. ■'Mat. 5: 3 ff.; Mark i: 27 etc., etc. * Mark 2: 5 
etc. 'Mat. 4: 23 fF.; Luke 7: 21 etc. i" Luke 7: 22 etc. 
" Mat. 4: 23 etc. 



82 "the God-Man. 

LXVIII 

Christ never had equivocated 

With God's Will not to coincide. 

To whatsoe'er it be related. 

Should it e'en paths of death provide: — 

LXIX 

Thus day by day in preparation 

To close Messiah's earth-career. 
The scenes of final ' consummation 

Of His redeeming work drew near. — 

LXX 

The last stage of Christ's consecration 

Reveals the miracle of light 
On Him ^ in His transfiguration. 

That grand, prophetic heavenly sight. 

LXXI 

Christ, Moses and Elijah meeting. 

Discussed Christ's solemn death,' then near.* 
There God the Father was repeating: 

** This is my Son beloved. Him hear." * — 

1 Mat. i6: 21; 20: 17 etc. * Mat. 17: 1-6 etc. ^ Rom. 5: 
10 etc. *Luke9:3i. ^ Mat. 3: 17; Luke 9: 35. 




CHRIST'S TRANSFIGURATION 
Matt. 17: 2 



VIII. 

SIMON PETER'S ATTESTATION CONCERNING 
CHRIST AND CHRIST'S REPLY. 

I 

When Christ His kingdom's firm foundation 

By working miracles had laid. 
And of Himself made proclamation 

By ^//he did and all He said: 

II 

He modestly the attestation 

From His Apostles once inquired; ' — 

The quoted^ people's declaration 

Was not the answer Christ desired. — 

III 
** But who I am are ye then saying ? " 

He asked, — they near Him life's paths trod; — 
Then Peter ^ said without delaying: 

"Thou'rt Christ, Son of the living God.** 

iMat. i6: 13; Mark 8: 17; Luke 9: 18. ^ " John the Baptist 
or Elijah," etc. ^ Peter's first name was Simon (John 1 : 42 ff. ) 
Christ, recognizing Peter's great affability, quick intelligence and 
special power of ready speech and leadership, said to him: Thou 
art Simon, thou shalt be called Cephas, which means in the oldest 
Greek Petros, a stone, or Peter. Affirming this in Mat. 16: 18, 
saying: ^'■Thou art Peter,'" and declaring: "and upon this rock 
{Petra, in Greek) i. e., upon this solid, clear-sighted confession of 
faith that I am the Christ, the Son of the truly living God — I will 
build my Church," it is evident that Christ " surnamed (Mark 3: 
16) Simon Peter (which is ^^ Cephas ") (John i: 42), because He 
saw in him the sterling qualities for leadership in His Church, fully 
proved by Peter's foremost activity, even during Christ's life, and 
at and after Christ's resurrection, ascension and the outpouring of 
the Holy Spirit, and the establishment of the primitive Apostolic 
Christian Church, seen in the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles and 
Peter's own Epistles in the New Testament. 



86 "the God-Man. 

IV 

This answer Peter's then is showing 
That sure conviction he had gained 

And at that time, in part, was knowing 
What, later, he of Christ maintained.* 

V 

"Who did no sin," he, later, stated, 

"And in whose mouth was found no guile," 

"Who when reviled," — oft deprecated 
Reply, and thus, " would not revile; " 

VI 

** Who threatened not, when He was suffering. 

To him that judgeth righteously 
His cause'' He rather would be oiFering; — 

He His own self upon the tree ' 

VII 

" Our sins was in His body bearing 
That we, who unto sins have died. 

Be living holy," * — be preparing. 
His saved ones,^ to be glorified;® 

VIII 

*' Redeemed," ' he, especially, asserted, 
" Not with the things corruptible," — 

To costly treasuries converted — 

" But with Christ's blood most valuable." ^ 

1 I Pet. 2: 22 ff. 2 I pet_ ^. ^^ ff. (Rev. Version.) » i Pet. 
2: 24 fF. * 1 Pet. 2: 24; i: 15. ^ i Pet. i: 18-22 etc. ^ I Pet. 
l: 4; 2 Pet. i: 4 etc. ' I Pet. i: 18 ff. ** I Pet. I: 19 fF, 



Part Fill. 87 

IX 

"As of a lamb " entirely holy — • 

•' Without a blemish or a spot; " ^ — 

And as God this accepted ^ wholly, 

** Our sins He now remembers not." ^ — 

X 

That answer Peter's, then, too, basing 
On what of Christ's works he had seen 

And which to him appeared amazing. 
Divinely great, sublime, serene,* 

XI 

The Son of God was nobly sealing; 

His royal seal He thus has giv'n: 
•* Blest art thou, this thee was revealing 

My Father only, who's in heav'n." 

XII 

'* My Church on this rock-bound confession 
That I'm the Christ I'll build ^ fore'er. 

Against which Hades' * vast possession 
And hosts shall not prevail, no, ne'er ! " 

^l Pet. i: 18 fF. 2R(,jj, e, etc., etc. ^ ^^ts 3: 19; Heb. 
10: 10 ff. etc. * Luke 5: 5-1 1 etc. ^Coinciding with my views 
here expressed ('The Christian Commonwealth,' London, May 
z, 1901) says: " In the New Testament we find (Mat. 16: 16) 
a simple and comprehensive confession of faith — ' Thou art the 
Christ, the Son of the living God ' — on which Jesus the Christ 
said, ' I will build my Church.' — This confession has been practi- 
cally displaced by human formulas of doctrine more or less complex 
and elaborate which have been made the basis of denominational 
churches, — it should be restored to its proper place." ® Mat. 16; 
1 8 ( Rev. Version) . 



The God-Man. 



XIII 

In this confession comprehended 

The Apostles their great gospel-creed 

When Christ's commission^ it impended 
All nations to this creed to lead. 

XIV 

Last Peter wrote: — all Christians grounding — 
"As of Christ's sufferings ye partake. 

Rejoice: the more in joys abounding 
When to His glory ye awake. ' ' * — 

^Mat. 28: 16-20; Mark 16: 14-18 ; Luke 24: 44-49 ; John 
»0: 21-31. 2 I Pet. 4 : 13, 14, 16 ; I : 7 ; Rom. 8 : 17, 18 
etc., etc. 



IX 

CHRIST'S TESTIMONY OF HIMSELF INCLUDING 

HIS TEACHING AS PRESENTED IN HIS 

SERMON ON THE MOUNT WITH HIS 

'OUR FATHER' MODEL PRAYER, 

ETC., ETC. 

I 

The Life and Works of Christ narrated 

As in the Scriptures * they're set forth. 
What Jesus of Himself has stated. 
Must naturally enhance His worth. 

II 
Christ was both God and man by nature,* 

He bore the names, — to many odd' — 
The names of His own nomenclature, — 

Or «« Son of man," or " Son of God." * 

III 
The name of " Son of man " preferring. 

He used it more than any name. 
To Him *' The Son of man " * referring. 

Who as the " second Adam " ® came. 

IV 

*' From heaven," Christ says Himself, "descended 
The Son of man who is in heav'n. 

And no man into heav'n ascended. 

But He the Son of man"'— "of heav'n. "» 

V 

Christ came the ** author " ^ representing 

Of the salvation of mankind. 
The doom of Adam first preventing. 

In whose sin '" men their ruin find. 

'John 5: 39. ^John I: 14; 2: 24. ^John 5: 18 fF.; 6: 41 
ff. etc. *John 5: 19 ff.; 6: 27, 40, 53, 62; 8: 28 ff. *John 
3:13. ^ I Cor. 15:47. 'John 3: 13, ^ I Cor. 15: 47 ( Rev. 
Version). » Heb. 2: 10; Eph. i : 22. lORom: £: 12-14 etc. 



"The God-Man. 



VI 

The **son of man," as Daniel stated, 
"Is given a kingdom ceasing ne'er. 

The Most High's saints" are indicated 
"As serving Him for e'er and e'er." ' — ' 

VII 

To this God's kingdom Christ was giving 
New laws ^ as King,' He claimed to be; — 

Christ's Kingdom are the Elected living 
Out of all times eternally.* — 

VIII 

Of what His kingdom's start be attending, 
Christ said: " God's angels, verily. 

From heaven — ascending — and descending 
Upon the Son of man ye' 11 see." ^ 

IX 

By " Son of man'''' Christ's humiliation,* — 
As deeply as it may be expressed, — 

That He achieve mankind's salvation,' 
In this name Christ did manifest. 

X 

Christ, consequently, was not counting 

Equality with God a prize,* 
To condescend to a state amounting 

To e'en the humblest 'neath the skies. 

1 Dan. 7: 13, 14, 18. ''Mat. 5: 22 fF.; Mat. 28: 19, 20 etc. 
* Mat. 27: II; I Timothy 6 : 13, 15; Rev. 17: 14. * Rev. 5: 
9 etc. *John i: 51. ^ Mat. 18: ii; Luke 19: loetc. ' Heb. 
Z; 9, 10 etc. ^Phil. 2: 6 (Rev. Version) etc. 



Part IX. 91 



Wherefore Christ freely was confessing: 
«' The fox and bird have where to stay. 

The « Son of man ' yet is possessing 

No place where e'en his head to lay." ^ 

XII 

Christ God-like proved. His own words stating: 
" The Son of man can sins forgive," "^ 

« Is of the sabbath. Lord; " ' relating 

«' Himself the Life through whom His live." * 

XIII 

So Christ has clearly also stated 

That in the final judgment-plan, 
God Him as judge has designated, 

" Because He is the Son of man.'' * 



Christ's deep humility Him raises 
To climax all humanity — 

Its very depth creating praises 
Proclaiming His Divinity.® 

XV 

Christ's God-incarnate elevation 
Became His God-like saving goal. 

And thus the portal of salvation 
For every Christ-believing soul."' 



iLukeq- S8. ^ Mat. 9: 6; Mark 2: 6. » Mat. 12: 8; Mark 
a, 28. *John II : 25- 'J°hn 5 •• *7- " R^v. 5 : 9 ff- «c. 
'John 3: 16; Eph. i: 3-14 etc. 



92 The God-Man. 

XVI 

Christ often, too. Himself is naming 

Like " Son of man " " the Son of God,'" 

With utmost emphasis proclaiming, 

•* God's works the Son does in like mode." * 

XVII 

He's not the son of God like others. 
Who God in heaven their Father call. 

Like seraphs, angels, or saved brothers, 
God'' 5 only-born He is of all.'' 

XVIII 

Himself the Son whom God was sending' 

Christ represents continually; — 
From His own words we're comprehending 

That though on earth. He in heaven, too, 
be.*— 

XIX 

To God incarnate ^ thus related 

Christ's themes, in various forms maintained; 
** My teaching is not mine,'''' He stated, 

** But his that sent me," ^ — He explained. 

XX 

Before the Jews Christ was declaring:' 

** My witness true is not alone,® 
My Father witness me is bearing. 

Thus 'in your law'' God's Son I'm 
shown." — 

I John 5 : 19 ff. 2john 3 : 16, 18 etc. *John 14: 24 etc. 
*John 3: 13. *John 6: 38. ^John 7: 16 ff.; 3: II etc., etc. 
»John 8: 14 ff. 



Pari IX. 93 

XXI 

So likewise Christ was testifying: 
" My witnessing is not my own. 

On his, that sent me, be relying. 
The works I do, are his alone." ^ 

XXII 

Christ God " My Father " '^ e'er is naming. 
Himself, '* Thy Son," ' when he does pray, 

** We're one," * He states; thus He's proclaim- 
ing: 
♦< I am the Truth, the Life, the Way." * 

XXIII 

Repeatedly Christ is assuring : 

** He saw the Father, who saw me," ® 

*' He and I are one," ' — thus fully insuring, 
Christ is *' God's Son " in verity.* 

XXIV 

•* My Father all things gave me," saying, 
" None knows him but alone through me; '* 

What far-bound truths these are conveying. 
What God-like, high authority ! — 

XXV 

How sweet is thus Christ's invitation 
To each with labor-burdened breast: 

** Come unto me, — take my salvation, — 
Ye heavy laden, take my rest." ^ — 

*John 8: i8, 26, 29 etc.; John 5: 17-19, 32-34 etc. ^John 
5: 17 etc. ^John 17: i etc. ''John 10: 30; 17: 11. ^John 
14: 6. ^John 14: 9. 'John 10: 30. '*John 6: 68, 69 etc. 
3 Mat. II: 27, 28. 



94 1'he God-Man. 

XXVI 

** I am the Life and Resurrection 

To all who do on me believe; " 
'Tween both worlds I make the connection,— 

** Eternal life to each I give." ^ 

XXVII 

There at the high priest's adjuration, — 

"Whether God's Son, the Christ, Thou 
be,"— 

Christ answered without hesitation: 
"Thou say St it," most deliberately; 

XXVIII 

And calmly prophesied, — referring 

To His return in victory, — 
Which on the clouds of heaven be occurring: — 

** Ye henceforth me in power shall see." — 

XXIX 

The world's Redeemer Himself deeming' 
" He seeks to save that which was lost," 

Enfolding all, He is redeeming. 

Into the folds of heaven's saved host.* 

XXX 

With emphasis Christ is maintaining 

" That ere the world was. He has been,* 

** Ere Abram was I am," — explaining: 
" For Abraham my day has seen." ® 

ijohn 6: 40, 54; ii: 25 ff. etc. ^ jyiat. 26: 63, 64. ^ Luke 
19: 10 etc. *John 14: 2 ff.; Rev. 7: 17. *John 17: 5; John 
I: 1-3; Col. I: 16 ff.j Heb. 1: 2 etc. ^John 8: 56, 58 etc. 



Part IX. 95 

XXXI 

Christ by His Tri-co-ordination — 
In Christian Faith e'en uppermost — 

His Church gives the Triune relation 
Of '* Father, Son, and Holy Ghost." » 

XXXII 

Christ oftentimes diversifyeth 

The Father's person, who Him sent,^ 

With whose Will His moreo'er complyeth,' 
Whose power in miracles He spent;* 

XXXIII 

With whom He was communicating, 

To whom He prayed, with whom He talked. 

With whom He all things ^ was creating. 
Before whom blamelessly He walked. 

XXXIV 

And likewise of the Holy Spirit 

Christ great distinctions clearly made. 

Entitling Him to highest merit; 

Him as to God, Christ homage paid.* 

XXXV 

*' Go," ' Christ, at last. His was advising, 
*• To me is given power uttermost. 

Disciple, in the name baptizing 

Of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; 

1 Mat. 28: 19. ^John 17: 3. ^joh^ j^. ^_ *John ii: 41 
fF. etc. *John i: 1-3 etc. •'John 14: 26 etc. ''Mat. 28: 19, 
205 Mark 16: 15. 



g6 'The God-Man. 

XXXVI 

Teach all things ' — all to be observing, 
Whate'er commandments I commend; 

And lo, I'm with you, you preserving 
E'en to the world's remotest end." — 

XXXVII 

The words Christ of Himself has stated. 
Which filled His hearers with surprise. 

As of His Godhead they related 

The following, too, most emphasize. — 

XXXVIII 

When to that woman ^ Christ there beareth 

The news that He Messiah be. 
To her distinctly He declareth: 

**/, that speak unto thee, am //if." ' 

XXXIX 

His special work from God revealing 

That to repentance He but lead 
The sin-sick men, them to be healing: 

** The whole not a physician need," * 

XL 

He said, and was occasion taking 

His foes and followers to let hear, — 

When foes objections had been making 
That He to "sinners" lent His ear." — 

*Luke 24: 47, 48. "John 4: 7 ff. ^John 4: 26. * Mat. 
9: 12, 13. 5 Luke 15: I, 2; Mat. 9: 12, 13 etc., etc. 



Part IX. 97 

XLI 

Then in His sermon on the mountain,* 
His Saviour- Mission Christ defined 

Himself to prove the God-sent fountain. 
Whence life, to save their soul, all find. 

XLII 

That those, who in seeking their salvation 
Repentant of their sins became, — 

Should fully attest His declaration: 

That "God"/ Son'^ to save sinners came." — 

XLIII 

The same truth Christ is also teaching 

By parables ^ most wondrously. 
Men's spiritual lost state fully preaching 

That <?// themselves as " /w/ " should see.* 

XLIV 

Thus in that sermon Christ w^as saying: 
♦* Blest are the poor in spirit: for 

Heaven's kingdom theirs is ; " ^ — He conveying 
What has been promised® them before. — • 

XLV 

The words then: " Blest are those who' re 
mourning '' 

For comforted each one shall be; " ® 
'• Blest are the meek," — to great peace® turning: 

"For they'll possess the earth," '" said He. 

' Mat. chapters 5, 6, 7; Luke 6: 20 ff. ^ John 3: 16 ff.; Luke 
19: 10; I Timothy i: 15; 4: 10 etc. ^ Luke 15: 3, 8, 11 ff., 
etc. *John 3: 3-17; 9: 39 ff. * Mat. 5: 3 ff. ^James 2: 5 
etc., etc. ^ Mat. 5: 4 ff. sr^ju^ g, jg ff^ » Psalm 37: 11 
etc. 1" Mat. 5: 5. 



98 The God-Man. 

XLVI 

Then *' Blest those who' re for justness yearning. 
They filled shall be," * He designates; 

** The merci- and peace-ful," then discerning, 
"These God's sons shall be called,"^ He 
states. 

XLVII 

Then ** Blest the pure in heart," He nameth, 
** For they," He pledges: " God shall see;" ' 

By which, most surely. He proclaimeth 
Their bliss in God eternally.* 

XLVIII 

Then " Great reward, if persecuted 

For me," says Christ, "in heaven ye've 
won," 

'* For to the Prophets wrong imputed, — 
To them before you, wrong was done." * — 

XLIX 

Then viewing men in public praying,® — 

Referring to the Pharisees,'' — 
He points — divinely all surveying — 

To God, who what's within men sees.* 

L 

By His way, then, to pray men teaching. 
In His " Our Father " ® model-pray'r — 

Included in that sermon's preaching — 
Christ's followers as one jiock'^^ declare: 

1 Mat. 5:6. 2 Mat. 5: 9 ( Rev. Version.) ^ Mat. 5:8. * I 
Cor. 13: 12 etc.; Rev. 22: 4 etc. ^ ?.Iat. 5: 10-12. * Mat. 6: 
5. 'Mat. 6: 5; 16: 6, 11 etc. * Mat. 6: 6 etc. ^ Mat. 6: 9 
ff. ^ojohn 10: 16 etc. 



Part IX. 



99 



LI 

** Thy name be hallowed; ^ " thee beseeching, — 
" Our Father, who'rt in heaven," up there; — 

To thee, O God, we're all outreaching 
Our hearts and hands in solemn pray'r; — 

LII 

*Tis, as if all to God are saying: — 

We still on earth live, where reigns sin, — 

To "Father, thee, in heaven" we're praying: 
** Thy kingdom come; " ^ — in us begin, — 

LIII 

** Thy Will on earth " let us be doing 

As it is done in heaven above," ' 
In thee our heritage pursuing 

Hopeful at work by faith in love;* — 



" Of each day's bread be Thou the giver; " 
" Forgive our debts, as we forgive; " 

'* From every evil us deliver; " * — 
Let sheltered by Thy might us live. — 

LV 

Thus, grandly through these royal chapters,' 
God's kingdom's laws Christ magnifies, — 

By them through faith He still enraptures 
All men — *' His Spirit'' sanctifies. — 

1 Mat. 6: 9 etc. ^ Mat. 6: 10 etc. ^ Mat. 6: li, 12 etc. 
* I Cor. 13 (chapter) etc. ^ Mat. 6: 13 etc. ® Mat. chapters 
5, 6, 7. 'Rom. 8: 9 etc., etc. 



100 The God-Man. 

LVI 

Men fully here perceive Christ's aiming. 
As God'' s Son, wondrously, to show 

God's kingdom's ways — He was proclaiming- 
That every one might surely know 

LVII 

Life's blessedness is not in giving 

Heed to the paths and ways of sin,* 

But it consists in holy ^ living. 

From a regenerate heart within; ' — 

LVIII 

That not, how outwardly descended,* 
The fitness for God's kingdom be. 

But on the God-like mind depended. 
In every soul, eternally.* — 

LIX 

The magna charta of laws giving. 
As in God's kingdom they prevail. 

The perfect Way ® of holy living 
Men nevermore thus now can fail ! 

LX 

Thus in that sermon ' Christ beholding— 
As ne'er a man was seen before — 

God's kingdom royally® unfolding: 

All Christ as God'' s Son should adore. 




Part IX. 10 1 

LXI 

That sermon the high message bearing — 

As it Christ's majesty became — 
Such words: " Not to destroy " declaring, 

"But to fulfil, I, God's Son, came:''^ 

LXII 

In its judicial application 

By Christ to all the world made known. 
It Him, in fullest demonstration. 

Creator of God's laws has shown. 

LXIII 

Christ's rule of service was upsetting 

Men's hearts, where'er to preach He went. 

In each eternal life ^ begetting. 

Where He His gospel's arrows sent! 

LXIV 

Thus Christ was no misguiding teacher. 
What He said stands as highest truth^ 

He is the truly model-preacher. 

No man was e'er His peer forsooth! 

LXV 

No wonder, all — that sermon ending, 

** Astonished " — it all well did please — 

** Christ's teaching*' deemed by far transcending 
That of the Scribes and Pharisees." 



' Mat. 5: 17, 22 etc., etc. ^John 5: 24 ff. etc., etc. 'John 
I: 12 ff. etc., etc. *Mat. 7: 28, 29. 



X 

CHRIST'S ENTRANCE INTO JERUSALEM. HIS 
TEACHING THE LAW OF CHRISTIAN LOVE. 
THE INSTITUTION OF THE SUPPER-SACRA- 
MENT. CHRIST'S CONFLICT IN GETHSEMANE 
AND HIS DEATH.— CHRIST'S OWN RESUR- 
RECTION FROM THE DEAD.— HIS ASCENSION 
INTO HEAVEN AND HIS FIRST ROYAL MANI- 
FESTATION FROM THERE IN THE MIRACLE 
OF THE LONG-PROMISED OUTPOURING OF 
THE HOLY SPIRIT IN JERUSALEM AT 
PENTECOST. 

I 

The time of Christ's career appearing 
To close here in its earthly sphere, — 

God in events not interfering, — 

Christ saw Himself^ His end draw near. 



II 

He, therefore, was Himself desiring 
Theocratic King to be proclaimed. 

Before the people e'er inquiring. 

Who, What Himself to be. He claimed.' 

Ill 

Into Jerusalem to enter ' 

Triumphant like a King, indeed. 

In this high act He made to center 
That royal world-historic deed; 

IV 

All spiritually still typifying. 

As ancient Scripture * long foretold. 

And as the seer was signifying 
In royal ^ words, as pure as gold. 

'Mat. 26: I, 2. *John 8: 25. 'Mat. 21 : I ff.; Mark il 
I fF. etc. * Zech. 9: 9. » Ps. n8: 26. 




JESUS ENTERING INTO JERUSALEM 
Mark 11: 11. 



Part X. 105 

V 

Christ's life its public close now reaching. 
He loved the rest of time to spend 

With His, impressively them teaching 
Most w^eighty truths, before His end. 

VI 

Christ's words there, — with the twelve thus 
staying 
That eve,^ — in yon' large, upper room: 
*' Me, one of you shall be betraying 

This night," all hearts o'erwhelmed with 
gloom. — 

VII 

Christ was to close His incarnation; — 
He was to leave next day this earth. 

Before the sun's illumination 

Had vanished from its glowing hearth ! — 

VIII 

His own till to the end Christ loving,' 

When supped. He from the supper rose — 

Himself their dearest friend still proving — 
To wash the feet of each. He chose.' 

IX 

The law of Christian love upholding — 
His precepts rendering most complete — 

Amazed, they Him there were beholding. 
As He washed each disciple's feet. 

' Mat. 26: 20 ff.j Mark 14: 17 ff.; Luke 22: 12 ff.j John 13: 
18 fF. 'John 13: I. *John 13: 5 ff. 



io6 The God-Man. 

X 

Scarce one His deed then comprehended. 
Though one, at first,^ refused consent, — 

That Christ to wash him condescended. 

He loved, when Christ showed what He 
meant. — 

XI 

His Lord's deed he deemed unbecoming. 
And could not see how great it is. 

Through love to others' rescue coming. 
Or hoard for others stores of bliss. — 

XII 

By this sweet symbol Christ there blesses. 

O'er man's affections far above. 
And in His followers' mind impresses 

The wondrous law of Christian love* — 

XIII 

That same night Christ was also saying: 
" I much desired — with you to meet, — 

Before I suffer, — while here staying, — 
This Paschal-meal with you to eat." ' 

XIV 

•* For I no more it shall be eating," 

Then He assuredly declared, 
** Till in God's kingdom — there you meeting — 

It be fulfilled," * as there prepared.^ 

^John 13: 8 ff. ^John 13: 15. ^ Luke 22: 15 fF. * Luke 
aa: 16. * Luke 14: 15; Rev. 19: 9. 



Part X. 107 

XV 

«' A cup, filled with red wine, — receiving,' 
Giv'n thanks. He let it His divide," 

The promise, ''I'll it drink not," leaving, 
*' Till in God's kingdom I'll abide." * 

XVI 

" Then He took bread, and when thanks given. 
He brake and gave it them; " — said He: 

** This is my body, for you given. 
This in remembrance do of me; " ' 

XVII 

** The cup, then, likewise, also saying: * 
This my blood of the covenant is," * 

*' Which shed for many " is conveying 
** Of sins remission, drink of this." ' 

XVIII 

When Christ thus there had instituted 

His holy Supper — Sacrament, 
He bread and wine there constituted 

His body and blood to represent ^ 

XIX 

As symbols of His body broken 

And His for men's sins poured out blood. 

Each one as elemental token 

Of God's Son sacrificed '' to God.^ — 

* Luke 22: 17, 18 (Rev. Vers.) *John 14: 1-3, 12; Mat. 
26: 29; Luke 22: 18. * Luke 22: 19. * Luke 22: 20. ^ Mat. 
26: 28 (Rev. Vers.) ^ Mat. 26: 27, 28. ' Heb. 9: 14; 10: 10, 
12 etc. * In the New Testament times, as recorded in Acts 20: 
7: "And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came 
together to break bread," the observance of the Lord's Supper 
(l Cor. II: 26) evidently was lueek/y. In conformity with other 
primitive lost customs, this likewise should be restored by consistent 
modern Christians. — 



'The God-Man. 



XX 

From there to Olivet ^ soon coming 

To ambrosial Gethsemane, 
Christ's sufferings — Him alone becoming — 

Proclaim His utmost agony. — 

XXI 

The last time there Himself presenting. 

He in the garden's balmiest part 
In ceaseless union was cementing 

Their God and each believer's heart. — 

XXII 

Deep sorrow ^ there His soul possessing. 
With heaviest might upon Him weighed 

The burdens — His whole heart depressing — 
Which God upon Him fully laid.^ — 

XXIII 

The burdens, which God's Son was bearing. 
Have been the sins of all mankind;* 

For their atonement Christ preparing. 

To Him men's guilt had been assigned.' — 

XXIV 

His soul in agony was grieving 

There suffering God's avenging rod; 

That men from death He be relieving 

He wrestled with death, bruised by God.* — 

'Mat. ^6: 30 etc., most probably after His discourses and His 
so-called High-priestly prayer, recorded in John's gospel in chapters 
14-17 inclusive, had been uttered that evening. ^ Mat. 26: 37. 
*Isa. 53:6. * John 1 : 29 etc. *Isa. 53:8. ^Isa. 53:4ff. 
etc., ere. 



Pari X. 109 

XXV 

Great fear was there His soul assailing. 

But in that boundless agony 
His efforts strong were unavailing 

From God's fierce wrath to be set free. — 

XXVI 

For God His Son " to be sin " ^ making. 
On men's behalf. He suffered thus; ^ 

For men their punishment Christ taking. 
Their substitute *' Christ died for us.^' * — 

XXVII 

As Supplicant He thrice was praying: 

" My Father, save me from this death," * 

When God his answer was delaying, 

Christ, quickened from above,^ then saith: — . 

XXVIII 

His Will entirely in God's blended. 

E'en as God's coeternal Son, 
And as foretold, so all be ended: — 

* • T/iy Will and not my own be done. ' ' ' 

XXIX 

His offering therewith was completed. 
Awaiting though acceptance still — 

In how He by His foes be treated — 
Of God His Father's sovereign Will, 

»2 Cor. 5: 21 ff. Msa. 53: 5,6. 3 Rom. 5: 8,9. * Mat. 26: 
39. ^ Luke 22: 43. fi Mat. 26: 42 etc. 



no T'he God-Man. 

XXX 

E'en there the humble^ world-creator 
His deep-felt God-like consciousness: 

'Tween God and men I'm Mediator,* 
His soul thus strongly did impress, 

XXXI 

That thoughts like these His heart were breaking:— 
They know me not,' they me defy; — 

My God — just now — is me forsaking; * — 
.S;'»'j sacrifice^ I now must die.^ — 

XXXII 

The world's sin,'' then, God's Son there bearing. 
Atoning, bathed in sweat of blood,* 

And through all death-scenes till declaring: 

*' ' Tis finished! " ^—He offered His life's ^» 
fiood. — 

1 Mark lo: 43-45. ^ i Tim. 2: 5; John i: 29 etc. 'John 
16: 3 fF. etc. * Ps. 22: I; Mat. 27: 46. ^ Heb. 10: 10 fF. etc. 
^John 12: 23-33. 'John I: 29 etc. ® Luke 22: 44. ^John 
19: 30. i"John 10: 15-19 etc. 



CHRIST'S RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD. 
I 

Most wondrously Christ's resurrection 

From death ^ the miracle reveals. 
Whose worth and grandeur and perfection 

Christ's life and death divinely seals. 

1 Mat. 28: I ff.; Mark 16: I ff.; Luke 24: I fF.; John 20: i fF.j 
Acts 2: 31, 32; 13: 33, 34; 17: 31; Rom. I: 4; I Cor. 15: 1 fF.j 
I Tim. 3: 16 etc. 



Part X. 113 



You ask: Where was Christ's spirit going 

On leaving His dead body here ? 
The answer Peter giveth showing 

That Christ went there to Hades' sphere.* 

Ill 

At death His spirit Christ commending 
Into His heavenly Father's care,^ 

The Father forthwith Him was sending 
There to the spirits' prison, where, 

IV 

As Peter states, the Christ was preaching 

To that benighted spirit-host 
The gospel's essence, them, too, teaching 

That without faith in Christ they're lost.* 

' I Pet. 3 : 19 ff. ^ Luke 23 : 46. 'This passage of the 
Apostle Peter ( i Pet. 3:19 ff.) — though, doubtless, false doctrines 
have arisen from it — proves but chiefly this: first, that in Hades 
among the many departed spirits ( including the vast number hurled 
there at the flood in Noah's time) there may be such as may not 
be incurably lost and for whom even there redemption is possible. 
To such also still in the prison of Hades, then, once for all times, 
the gospel was preached by Christ Himself, that they also, if 
possible, through y^j/V^ in Christ might be saved; and, second, as on 
earth to the living, so also in their separation from the body through 
His spirit Christ proclaimed His gospel of redemption to the departed 
spirits in Hades, that as the Apostle Paul asserts, " In the name of 
Jesui every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on 
earth and things under the earth, and that every tongue should 
confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of the Father. ' ' 
Philip. I: 10, II etc. Compare Acts 2: 27, 31; I Cor. 15: 55J 
Rev. 1: i8j 20: 13, 14; Mat. 16: 18; Luke 16: 23 etc. 



114 ''I'he God-Man. 



Christ's death, seal of redemption giving 
To men, His rising from the grave 

The third day, as foretold,^ He living: 
As pledge of ceaseless life He gave? 

VI 

The fact that Christ died, had confounded 
The many who in Him believed; 

They o'er Christ dead, by rocks surrounded. 
Stone-sealed — and watched by soldiers, grieved. 

VII 

When they had seen their dear Lord dying. 
They died themselves almost of fear. 

Not knowing what was underlying 

Christ's death for their own life's career. 

VIII 

His friends in grief forsook Him wholly. 
Whilst buried in the vault He lay,^ — 

Night's shadow there one could see slowly 
Give way the light on that third day. — 

IX 

A quick sound on that rest was falling; 

A mighty earthquake shook the ground;* 
The guard fell down through fear appalling; * 

An Angel® was sole witness found; — 

^ Luke i8: 33; John 10: 17 etc. ^John 3: 15; i Pet. i: 3, 
4 etc. 3 Mat. 28: 56. * Mat. 28: 2 etc. ^ Mat. 28; 4 etc. 
^ Mat. 28: 2-8 etc. 




hi; j.s hksen, as hI': said " 

Matt. 28: 



Part X. uy 



In snow-white dress with features shining. 
He there had come like lightning's flame. 

And Christ, the grave had been enshrining, 
j^rose and King o'er death became ! 

XI 

Raised from the dead and in transition 
From earth to heaven, progressively,* 

Christ passed the line of the partition 

Which must 'tween th' earthy and heavenly 
be.^— 

XII 

Christ's resurrection thus did vary 

From that He wrought in other men. 

Their raising was but temporary. 
They, soon or later, died again. — 

XIII 

In resurrection-form appearing, 

Christ glorified rose from the tomb. 

His glory to completion nearing 

Transformed Him with immortal bloom. 

XIV 

The resurrection-body wholly. 

Progressively,^ He had put on. 
The immortal human form and holy,* 

In which He now sits on heaven's throne.* — 

'John 20: 17. *i Cor. 15: 48, 49 etc. ^John 20: 17. 
* Rev. I: 7, 13; John 19: 37 etc. ^ Eph. i: 18-23; Rev. 5: 6j 
Acts 7: 565 I Pet. 3: 22 etc. 



ii8 The God-Man. 



XV 

All people, Jews and Gentiles gazing. 
Saw Christ, when He was crucified. 

That they Christ risen saw — amazing! — 
Above five hundred testified ! ^ — 

XVI 

So Stephen, Christ's first martyr, dying. 
That he Christ saw alive, gave word,' 

And Paul, at last, was testifying 
As witness for the risen Lord.' — 

XVII 

Could greater argument be given 

To attest ** the life Christ brought to light * 
Than His and that of those in heaven. 

Who dwell with Christ in glory bright ? * — 

XVIII 

That Christ's foes never Him were seeing 

Raised from the dead, some e'er thought 
strange, — 

How could they recognize Christ's Being 
In His divinely transformed change ? ! — 

XIX 

They once their King, the Christ, rejected,' 

All miracles had proved in vain. 
Though they had seen Him resurrected 

From death,' they'd murdered Him again.' 

^ Acts I: 3; lo: 41; I Cor. 15: 5-8 etc. ^ Acts 7: 55. * I Cor. 
15:8 etc. * 2 Tim. I : 10 ; I John 3: 2. ^ John 14 : 2, 3 
etc. ® Mat. 27: 21, 25. 'Luke 16: 31. * See note 2 on 
page 175. 



Fart X. 119 

XX 

Moreo'er the fact they ne'er refuted 
That Christ was risen from the dead; 

They left the story indisputed. 

As by Christ's followers told and spread.* 

XXI 

The effects of it they saw increasing 
In His disciples who Christ's fame 

Proclaimed, and who with zeal unceasing 
Did preach and ^' heal in Jesus' name.''' " 

XXII 

But what now was the change producing 
In Christ's disciples who had fled 

When witnessing His foes' abusing 

And after they had seen Him dead ? — 

XXIII 

It was the fact that Christ was living, — 

His new life indisputable! 
The certain proofs which had been giving 

His resurrection-miracle ! — 

XXIV 

Some shortly after He was rising 
From death, saw Christ assuredly.* 

This news so much all was surprising, 
TYizX filled with it one all could see. — 

1 Acts 2: 31, 32. 2 Acts 3: 15, 16; 4: 10, 14, 29, 30 etg. 
•John 20; 15-185 Mark 16: 9, 10, 



120 'the God-Man. 

XXV 

So, as each other they were meeting, 

<' The Lord is risen indeed .'^^ ^ they said. 

Thus through their resurrection-greeting 
The glorious news to all they spread. — 

XXVI 

In its divine glorification. 

As it went on progressively, 
Christ's body met no limitation. 

So far one outwardly could see. 

XXVII 

He still with His communicated," 

They saw and heard and touched ' Him e'en. 
He fully to them vindicated 

His life's career in God's word* giv'n. 

XXVIII 

And when He made clear prohibition ' 
That He be touched by Mary there. 

He to the perfect exhibition 
Of human nature ® did refer. — 

XXIX 

For this maturing consummation 

Christ forty days on earth had stayed. 

Ere He returned for coronation 

As in the Psalmist's words'' portrayed. 

* Luke 24: 34 etc. ^ Luke 24: 1 7 fF. * John 20: 20, 27 fiF. 
etc. * Luke 24: 27 ff., 45 etc. *John 20: 17. ®John 14: 2, 
3 etc., etc. 'Psalm 24; no; I etc. 




CHRIST AFPEARING TO MARY MAGDALENE AFTER HIS 
RESURRECTION 



Part X. 123 

XXX 

This process of glorification 

In Christ, the Saviour of mankind. 

Remarkably in illustration 

To men of God is seen consigned. 

XXXI 

So Moses was with God remaining 
For forty days there ^ on the mount, 

The people's leadership obtaining 

From God the great ''I am " ^ Life- Fount. 

XXXII 

So was Elijah a sojourner 

For forty days, to see God's light 

And to become himself a learner 
God's government to view aright.' 

XXXIII 

And Christ spent forty days * reviewing 
The scenes of His Messiah-sphere, 

To see complete success ensuing 
The measures of His high career. 

XXXIV 

Those forty days,^ then, too, included 

Another fact of highest worth, 
Christ's followers — more or less — secluded. 

Were summoned once more to come forth. 

lExod. 24: 18. 2Exod. 3: 14 ff. 3 I Kings 19: 8 fF. * Mat. 
4: 2 fF. ^ Acts 1 : 3 etc. 



124 ^^^ God-Man. 

XXXV 

*Twas, too, a gathering for th' existence 
And the continuance of Christ's cause. 

Lest all His enemies' persistence 

Create a Church-destroying pause. — 

XXXVI 

Then, Christ's Apostles, not yet rooted 
In all things, Christ Himself had taught 

For the proclaimed and instituted 

"God's Kingdom,"^ He Himself had 
brought, — 

XXXVII 

Were by Himself to be directed: 

How all the prescripts should be served. 

By which ** God's kingdom " ^ was affected. 
And all, as He wished, be observed.^ 

XXXVIII 

Then they were also days preparing 
The Apostles' mind for the command. 

In which Christ charged them, when declaring 
That the fulfillment was at hand 

XXXIX 

Of the long-prophesied outpouring 

" Of e'en my Spirit," ^ " saith the Lord," * 
And '* 'mong the remnant* — sure restoring — 

Those whom he shall call " * — by His word.* 

1 Acts I: 3. 'Acts 2: 16, 17. 'Joel 2: 12. *Joel 2: s8 

ff. 32 (Revised Version.) * Acts 2: 39. 



Part X. 125 

XL 

Christ charged them that they should be waiting 
" For God the Father's promise, ye 

From me have heard," He had been stating, 
♦* Which not long hence fulfilled shall be." ^ — 

XLI 

And when the forty days were ended. 
To be with God, as once, the same,* — 

Christ from sweet Olivet ^ ascended 

To heaven, *' whence down to earth He 



xui 

Christ His disciples had assembled 

Nigh unto dear Jerusalem,^ 
The mystery in balance trembled. 

That now again He should leave them. — 

xLin 
And as all Him there were beholding® 

With blessing hands depart and rise 
Toward heaven, — a cloud Him there enfolding — 

They worshipped Christ in yonder skies.' — 

XLIV 

Then, 'mid great joy they were returning' 

To await the longed-for miracle. 
For which they all were greatly yearning 

Through Christ's long-promised oracle.' 

1 Acts I: 4: ^ John 17: 5. ^ Acts 1 : 9 fF. *John6: 38,51 
etc. * Acts I: 12. ^ Acts i : 9 ff . 'Luke 24; 52. * Luke 
24: 52. 'John 14: 16 ff. 



126 "The God-Man. 

XLV 

All now of Jesus' resurrection 

And Godhead had full certainty. 
And none could think of any objection 

That promise soon fulfilled to see. 

XLVI 

They all to God prayers were addressing 

With one accord continually ^ 
That soon the Holy Spirit's blessing 

From there on high sent forth might be.* 

XLVII 

The festival of Coronation 

We now in Christ's ascension ^ see. 

Then held in grand commemoration 
On His return in victory. 

XLVIII 

There at the right hand of the Father 
He sitteth on God's matchless throne. 

And ever since around Him gather 

Heaven's hosts who Him as their King own.* 

XLIX 

But, though Christ was in heaven, surrounded 

By glories indescribable, 
'Mid songs and ecstasies unbounded. 

He sent His glorious miracle:' 

* Acts I: 14. ^ Luke 24: 49 etc. ^ Psalm no: I etc. * Rev. 
5: I fF. etc. ^John 14: 16; 15: 26; 16: 7, 16 etc. 



Part X. 127 

L 

The Holy Spirit's gift from heaven. 

In which all now can recognize 
The royal first deed Christ has given 

To men from His throne in the skies. 



LI 

When all the heavens o'er Christ exulted. 
There sitting on His Father's throne. 

From that grand triumph then resulted 
The miracle till then unknown. 



LII 

Christ's royal Majesty befitting. 

He proof gave unmistakable. 
That God the Father was permitting 

To work the Spirit's miracle. — 

LIII 

Thus through the air from heaven * was rushing 
A sound, — upon heaven's King's demand, — 

Streams of the Spirit there were gushing 
And nothing could their power withstand. 

LIV 

As from an Alp-stream's waves was filling 
The Spirit's power that^ house entire. 

New light its inmates' souls was thrilling, 
" Tongues sat on each like as of fire." 

'Acts 2: 2 ff. * Acts 2: 2 ff. 



128 The God-Man. 

LV 

This miracle was glorifying 

Christ of His Church the God-crowned ' Head 
In His disciples magnifying 

Him who for them His blood had shed. 

LVI 

The Holy Spirit thus was sealing ^ 

All Christ had said and He had done. 

All comforting/ whom Christ was healing 
Through His redemption for all * won. 

LVII 

Their King there to His Church was sending 

His gracious gift abundantly. 
Their numbers wondrously extending 

That fruits in thousands they should see.* — 

LVIII 

The Holy Spirit e'er is giving 

Each soul regenerating power 
For Christ its Saviour to be living 

In every sphere and every hour. — 

LIX 

The Holy Spirit thus was wielding 
His power in Christ's Apostles' soul 

That they entirely e'er were yielding 
Their heart and mind to His control. 

1 Heb. 2: 9, 10 etc., etc. ^John 7: 38, 39 etc. ^John 14; 
l6, 26 etc. * Htb. 2: 9, 10 etc., etc. ^ Acts 2: 41 etc., etc. 



Part X. i2g 

LX 

Their soul was differently affected. 
When first in Jesus they believed; 

Their faith was more and more perfected. 
When they God's Spirit had received. — 

LXI 

At first, they were to errors leaning; 

By spiritual things they were unmoved. 
And oft mistook Christ's words' true meaning;^ 

Some of their views Christ disapproved.^ — 

LXII 

But afterwards how elevating 

Was Peter's sermon,' when he said 

What Prophets spake, correctly stating 

And in its true light God's word read.* — 

LXIII 

When thus the Holy Spirit coming 

From heaven upon them, and His light 

Like fire-flames was withal becoming 
The Guide of leading them aright: 

LXIV 

Their night in spiritual things was falling 
Like scales ^ of darkness from their eyes. 

And ignorance their mind enthralling 

Was changed to knowledge heavenly wise. 

1 Acts I: 6 etc.; Luke 24: 25 etc. ^ Mat. 16: 23 etc. 'Acts 
z: 14 fF. etc. * Acts 2: 34 ff. etc. ^ Acts 9: 18 etc., etc. 



130 The God-Man. 

LXV 

And though unlearned, they notwithstanding 
Conversed in tongues to them unknown. 

And uttered with clear understanding 
The words the Spirit them had shown. ^ 

LXVI 

The Holy Spirit was, moreover. 

To teach them all things Christ had taught. 
And lead them new things to discover 

In things to their remembrance brought.^ — 

LXVII 

The Holy Spirit was removing 

From their mind each dark element 

And all their faculties improving 

Through His divine enlightenment. — 

LXVIII 

The Spirit them also was making 

To heroes true not counting loss 
To follow Christ and gladly taking 

Upon themselves the heaviest cross.' 

LXIX 

Before the Spirit's gift receiving 

How timid was their conduct then. 

When danger * they had been perceiving. 

How stern, when they met hostile men ? * — 

^ Acts 9: 18 etc., etc. ^John 14: 26 etc., etc. ^ Acts 9: i6j 
Gal. 6: 14 etc., etc. * Mat. 8: 24 ff. ^ Luke 9: 52 ff. 



Part X. 131 

LXX 

When Jesus was Himself preparing 

To go to suffer and to die. 
He Peter Satan called declaring: — 

With thee not God's, but men's things vie ! ' — 

LXXI 

When mothers ^ were their infants bringing 
To Jesus that them He might bless. 

Unwelcome in their ears were ringing 
The words of their unkind address 

LXXII 

Rebuking them for their endeavor 

To come to Jesus and to find 
For little children their Lord's favor. 

Too small, they thought, for His great mind; — 

LXXIII 

The question often they disputed 

Who among them might the greatest be,' 

Though pride before Christ stood reputed 
A hideous iniquity.* — 

LXXIV 

How now the Apostles makes appearing 

The Pentecostal miracle ? ! — 
They're joyfully to Christ adhering. 

Believing every oracle 

1 Mat. 16: 23 ff. 2 Mat. 19: 14 flF. ^ Mark 10: 43 etc. 
*Mat. 18: 4 fF. etc., etc. 



132 the God-Man. 

LXXV 

Concerning Him by Prophets given; 

Now with the Holy Spirit filled. 
Their heart and mind by naught is riven 

To serve Christ, e'en should they be killed! * — 

LXXVI 

This contrast saw most evidently 

Their enemies, when their charge malign 

The sanguine Peter answered gently,'* 
Denying that them filled new wine, — 

Lxxvn 
And then most eloquently stated 

The record ^ of the miracle. 
By Scripture-words which indicated 

That God spake evcr^ oracle. — 

LXXVIII 

With what great boldness they were standing 
Before that Jewish Council there,* 

When Peter, in Christ's name commanding. 
To a lame, to walk, did power confer ! — 

LXXIX 

When all that Council had admitted: 

** A miracle, indeed, they've wrought," — 

And threatening them — had not permitted 
That e'er in such work they be caught, — 

' Acts 7: 54 fF. etc. * Acts z: 15 ff. ^ Acts 2: I 7 ff . * Acts 
4: 8 ff. 



Part X. 133 

LXXX 

Then John and Peter answered, stating: 
•' If God or you to obey, judge ye. 

We cannot cease communicating 

The things zve heard and we did see. ' ' ' — 

LXXXI 

When to their number they reported * 

The sequel of this miracle 
And all by God's word had exhorted ' — 

Inspired by every oracle — 

LXXXII 

And then had prayed: the place was shaken. 
Where all the company gathered were. 

And with the Spirit filled, they'd taken 

Great courage, and preached everywhere. — 

LXXXIII 

And wheresoe'er they Christ were preaching 

The Spirit them electrified 
With wisdom, them in all things teaching. 

And followers greatly multiplied ! ^ — 

LXXXIV 

They thus continued and rejected 
All honors for themselves beneath; 

They worked for Christ, for God's Elected, 
Christ's Church, outlasting all— e'en death !^ 

^ Acts 4: 19 ff. 2 Acts 4: 23 ff. ^ Acts 4: 25 ff. * Acts 6: 
7 etc., etc. ^ Rev. 20: 14; 21: 18 etc., etc. 



134 the God-Man. 

LXXXV 

In Christ's Apostles were performing 
Such changes God's own miracles 

As made them each to all conforming 
According with God's oracles.^ 

LXXXVI 

The Apostles holy lives were living, 

Entirely irreproachable. 
To Christ's work they themselves were giving 

As devotees unmovable ! ^ — 

LXXXVII 

No wonder, therefore, that thus minded 

They conquered many obstacles 
Whereby their judgment might be blinded 

To thwart the Spirit's ^ oracles, 

LXXXVIII 

To adhere to Christ, God's Son, forever 
Of whom assurance them was giv'n 

From which them naught on earth could sever 
That Christ as Lord* had entered heav'n. — 

LXXXIX 

Thus one by one could be confessing 

In fullest meaning of the words. 
What in our lives we are professing: 

** We live or die,* we are the Lord's." 

^ Acts 9: 4 ff. etc., etc. ^ Acts 8: 20. ' Acts 4: 31. * Acts 
7: 55 fif. ^Rgm. 14: 7-10 etc., etc. 



XI 

THE SEEKING OF SINFUL MEN FOR GOD'S 

PARDON ANSWERED THROUGH CHRIST'S 

ATONEMENT. 

I 

The fact that each man ' by transgression 

Of God's law is God's enemy. 
His question: How get I possession 

Of pardon for my sins ? ^ — must be. 



^ Rom. 3: 9-12 etc., etc. The Jews as well as the Gentiles 
have ever shown, that in a spiritual point of view they are lost. 
God's law has a blessing for the doers of it: " The doers of the 
law shall be justified "( Rom. 2: 13) ; but this is added: "Accursed 
is every one, that continueth not in all things which are written in 
the book of the law to do them." (Gal. 3: 10.) The Gentiles, 
although they possess not an objective law, are a "law to them- 
selves showing the work of the law written in their hearts." 
( Rom. 2: 15.) But, " both, Jews and Gentiles, are all under sin: 
there is none righteous, none that doeth good, no, not one." 
(Rom. 3 : 9-23.) — Socrates, Plato, Aristoteles, Cicero, Ovid, 
etc., have confessed and testified of the spiritually lost condition of 
men by nature. — Plato, e. g., argues (in Meno) that if children 
were good by nature (^pAusei), it would need to shut them up by 
themselves in order to keep them good. Cicero ( de amicitia 24) 
and Ovid (metam. VII, 20 seq.) say almost one and the same, 
stating that they acknowledge and approve of the better, but do the 
worse: ^^ Video meliora proboque^ deteriora sequor.'"'' And all this is 
in full accord with Paul's expression ( Rev. Version) " That which 
I do I know not: for not what I would, that do I practise, but 
what I hate, that I do." (Rom. 7: 15.) ^ Rom. 3: 22-24; 
Acts 2: 37 etc. 



136 The God-Man. 

II 

And this implies faith in Christ's merit. 

The spiritual new-birth ^ realized. 
Effected by the Holy Spirit, 

And in God's Name to be baptized.' — 

III 

Who now for guidance is applying: 

How can Christ's merit I know aright? — 

Is Christ's Salvation mine implying ? 
Does He to heaven me, too, invite ? — 

IV 

Moreo'er, as God's word is declaring: 
" Each man by nature serveth sin," ' 

And all men are full witness bearing 

*< That sin does dwell in man within: " * 

V 

The question, naturally, occurring 

How God makes _/aj-/ who ifi Christ believed,^ — 
The answer in Paul's words incurring: 

''Through Christ'' s atonement we've re- 
ceived: " ® 

VI 

It needs to prove God's truths proclaiming 

That men by grace are justified 
Through Christ' s complete redemption ' claiming 

God'' s pardon^ for whom God'' s Son died. — 

ijohn 3: 1-21 etc. ^ Acts 2: 38; Mat. 28: 19, 20. 'Rom. 
7: 25; John 8: 34. ^ Rom. 7: 17, 18 etc. ^ Rom. 3: 26 etc. 
^ Rom. 5: II etc. Christ's atonement is ascribed specifically to 
His death, Rom. 5: 10; to His cross, Eph. 2: 16; and to His 
blood, Col. i: 20 etc. ''Rom. 3: 24-26, ® Mat, 20; zSj Eph. 
I: 17; I Cor. I: 30 etc., etc. 



Part XL 137 



VII 

Who into his administration 

Brings law which penalty suspends 

With still sufficient demonstration 
Of awe — as to all law appends — 

VIII 

To punish who the law transgresses 
With but a part of penalty. 

And still no wrong for him expresses. 
Whose right to punish all must see: 

IX 

This is atonement terminated. 
Which limits penalty's extent. 

The law transgressors indicated 
In any righteous government. — 

X 

Yet into a realm's administration 
Atonement none can introduce. 

Save justly,^ lest by dispensation 
Of grace, law's majesty he abuse. 

XI 

If thus an officer is feeling 

To give not penalty, but grace. 

The law its due to sin revealing. 
Makes penalty take favor's place. 

'Rom. 6: 15-22; Gal. 3: 19-29 etc. 



138 The God-Man. 

XII 

If in a realm's administration 

A fair atonement ne'er is made. 
The law must give its vindication: 

** Trangressed law must its dues have paid ! ** — 

XIII 

The idea — in point of illustration — 
The Prophet Daniel's ^ case conveys — 

Darius made a proclamation: 

** All must to me pray thirty days ! " * 

XIV 

When told that Daniel still was praying 
Thrice daily,' in spite of his decree. 

He ordered penalty, this saying: 
^"Thy God, thou serv'st, deliv'reth thee!"* 

XV 

Thus, when the law he was transgressing. 
Law's rights were due, by law confessed, — 

With no atonement * both professing, — 
The law and Daniel safe: — he expressed 

XVI 

His guilt, — him in the den ® was casting. 
Where God, the Prophet's mighty Friend, 

The lions, — trained for prey by fasting, — 
Like lambs before him made to bend.' — 

1 Dan. 6: i ff. « Dan. 6: 7 fF. ^ Dan. 6: 13. * Dan. 6: 16. 
6 Dan. 6: 14. * Dan. 6: 16. ''Dan. 6: 22 etc. 



Part XL 139 



XVII 

Another such case is reported 
In ancient Lokrian history. 

The King * by statute thus retorted: 
*• Bereft oi sight each guilty be ! "- 



XVIII 



Unfortunately, the king's son being 
The first transgressor of that law. 

By love, the father, wisely seeing 

The atonement, — it applied with awe; — 

XIX 

With the transgressor therefore sharing 

Half of that statute's penalty. 
He lost one eye himself, thus sparing 

His son's one eye, that all might see, 

XX 

Who of that favored son were hearing 
The reasons for afforded grace. 

And none think he be interfering 
With penalty in any case. — 

XXI 

That father's sacrifice in giving 

Good cause for grace, to government. 

And subjects in that kingdom living. 
Atonement was to all intent. 



* The name of the King was Zaleucus, living about 660 before 
the Christian Era, 



140 The God-Man. 



XXII 

But though atonement substituted 

In an economy of grace. 
Is more than law has instituted. 

It ne'er against^ law must take place. 

XXIII 

Into a realm's administration 

A good atonement must be brought. 
For Daniel's crime ^ for expiation. 

One of his slaves availed to nought !— 



A prince the point might have been reaching, 

If to the government he said: 
** Seeing Daniel's worth, I am beseeching: 

Do punish me in Daniel's stead! " — 

XXV 

A good atonement is demanding 
An equal, what the law requires; 

For this the ruler is commanding 
The punishment, the law desires! 

1 "Without shedding of blood is no remission," ( Heb. 9: 22.) 
Underlying this principle, rather than to have no redemption, it 
required the shedding of Christ's innocent blood *' that cleanseth us 
from all sm." ( i John 1:7.) * Dan. 6: 13. 



XII 

CHRIST'S ATONEMENT, THE REASON FOR ITS 

ACCOMPLISHMENT, ITS COMPLETION 

AND ITS EXTENT. 

I 

The world for an atonement waited 
By which God might be satisfied. 

To make man just, though not, as stated. 
He by the law be justified.^ 

II 
The great atonement was completed. 

For which four thousand years men prayed. 
Which long was typified, repleted 

With offering-services arrayed.* 

Ill 
For when the God-man, sinless,^ holy. 

Whom they " Thy holy servant " * named. 
At last said: "It is finished! " ^ — wholly 

*' With God we reconciled " ® are claimed. 

IV 

This sacrifice God was ordaining 

Before the world was,^ that it be 
A sinless * man, to be maintaining 

All things divine, most perfectly.' 



The Scriptures therefore predicated 
Like as to God to this his Son 

Who by Himself^" has mediated 
And reconciliation won,^^ 



^ Gal. 3: 10-13. * Heb. 1 1: 11. ^i Pet. 
27 (Rev. Version.) ^John 19: 30; Heb. 10 
10, II; Heb. 10: 10-17. '' I Pet. I: 19, 2C 
7: 26. 9 Heb. i: 2; 2: 8-10. i" Heb. I: 3. " 



^ I Pet. 1:19. * Acts 4: 
^' ' " 10. ^Rom. 5: 

.. 8 Heb. 4: 15; 

Rom. 5: 8-1 1 etc. 



l42 'The God-Man. 

VI 

Like attributes and adoration,^ 

E'en as the "guiltless Lamb once slain," 
That through His blood ^ complete salvation 

For all, for ever. He obtain.^ 

VII 

No government can be presuming 
To force a man the friend to be 

Of him in debt, to be assuming 
His place as his security. 

VIII 

But if one by his choice desireth 

Security to be esteemed. 
And gives his pledge as law requireth. 

Until the whole sum is redeemed; 

IX 

'Tis right, if, what the debtor oweth. 
Law can no ways adjusted see. 

Though of the bondsman aught it knoweth. 
It takes him, his security,* 

X 

From him the debt's amount demanding. 
The debtor owes, but met no way. 

And which the law now is commanding 
His substitute to adjust and pay. — 



' Heb. I: 3-13; Rev. 5: 8-14. ^Heb. 9: 12-15; C°'- '= ^°' 
• Heb. 2: 9, 10 — "for every man," etc. * Rom. 4: 25; 5: i, 
8-10 etc. 



Part XII. 143 

XI 

Now Jesus Christ Himself^ presented, — 

In want of justness of mankind. 
Their holy substitute He unbented 

Has proved in His own soul and mind, — 

XII 

"All Godhead in Him bodily dwelling,* 

Of principalities and power 
The head," of whom Heaven's hosts are telling,' 

Men's Saviour with us every hour* — 

XIII 

To God, the world's just Ruler duly, — 
Though penalty He could not pay. 

Not knowing ceaseless misery truly: — 
'♦ The bond * — He took out of the way; " 

XIV 

** The handwriting of ordinances, 

'Gainst men," predicting final loss, — 

He spoiling every power's high chances 

To harm, '*He nailed it to His cross ! " *-^ 

XV 

He gave the equivalent consisting 
In guiltless sufferings and His death. 

His love for sinners e'en persisting 
To save till drawing His last breath.'' 

* John 10; II, 15 etc. * Col. 2: 14 etc. ' Rev. 5: 5 fF. etc. 
* Mat. z8 : 20. * Col. 2: 14, 15 etc. ^ Col. a: 14, 15. 
' Luke 23 : 43. 



144 '^^^^ God-Man. 

XVI 

Christ took the place of each transgressor 
To bear God's wrath; — so 'tis revealed: 

** Men's griefs He bore^ — our intercessor* — 
From Him our face vv^e have concealed; ' — 

XVII 

*< He w^ounded v^^as for our transgression; 

To Him deep pains our sins did yield; 
They weighed on Him like great oppression. 

But through His stripes and pains we're 
healed:' ^— 

XVIII 

To God for men's sins propitiation 
Could every means not be set forth, 

'Tween God for reconciliation 

With men, required Christ's blood's* great 
worth. 

XIX 

To condescend with power invested,* 

Coequal God, the Son of God, 
The world's sins bearing* manifested. 

As Lamb of God ® this earth hath trod: 

XX 

To be *• High Priest in things pertaining 

To God, all sins- to reconcile " ' 
By His own blood redemption gaining 

To every one, sin did defile.® — 

' Isa. 53: 4. " Heb. 7: 25. ^ Isa. 53: 5 ff.; i Pet. 2: 24. 
* Col. 1 : 20. ^ Phil. 2: 5-8. "John 1: I, 14, 29 etc. ' Hcb. 
2: 17 etc. ^i Pet. 2: 2i ff etc 



Part XIL HS 

XXI 

The word of God therefore is styling 
Christ's work in this majestic style: 

** God to himself was reconciling 

The world " ^ — " all things to reconcile." ' 

XXII 

Christ's Godhead, primarily, thus basing 

On His birth supernatural,' 
His Father from the dead Him raising,* 

Created Him prime Miracle. * 

XXIII 

So Christ Himself was testifying: 

" For Him has God the Father sealed,'''' * 

Which means — if logic we're applying: 

** Through Christ' s atonement we are healedy ^ 

XXIV 

Thus we to God are praises singing 

That Christ's atonement we've received 

Full reconciliation ® bringing 

To all who have in Christ believed. — 

XXV 

To sin God hatred was declaring 

When to our parents He forbade 
To stay in Eden after tearing 

The fellowship so kindly made.' 

^2 Cor. 5 : 19. ^ Col. I : 20. ^John I : 1-14 etc., etc. 
*Rom. 8: 34; I Cor. 15:15 etc., etc. ^ i Tim. 3: 16 etc. *John 
6: 27. ' Rom. 5: 10, 11. ^2 Cor. 5: 18, 19 etc. ^ Gen. 3: 24. 



146 l^he God-Man. 

XXVI 

They in that garden there were walking 

In sweet communion, joyfully. 
Fair Eden, subject of their talking. 

No discord, ere man's fall, could see!— 

XXVII 

To sin his hatred God more stated 
When on the mount ^ in later time 

His decalogue He legislated 

The people, whom with power sublime 

XXVIII 

Preserving them by executions 

Of judgments, He led wondrously, 

By miracles and institutions 

Of gifts in Christ complete to be;' 

XXIX 

But in Christ's death, God has been giving 

To sin abhorrence uttermost ! — 
He gave his Son that all be living 

Whoever believes and none be lost !^ 

XXX 

By Christ's atonement thus we're finding 
Accomplished what else ne'er could be: 

That who himself to Christ is binding. 
Is pardoned and from sin's curse free.* 

1 Exod. 20 etc. 2 fjgb. 10: 12 etc., etc. *John 3: 16 etc., 
etc.; Rom. 10: 9-11 etc. * Rom. 8: i etc. 



Part XI L 147 

XXXI 

This to a question now is leading 

Which is of infinite concern 
To such as heard it, were it reading. 

And found no light yet in return. 

XXXII 

** For whom was Christ the atonement 
making ? " — 

Some ask. — From Scripture we decide 
And no part in the thoughts are taking: 

*' That Christ but for a few men died; " 

XXXIII 

** That God, the Lord, predestinated 
Who ' nolens volens ' ^ shall be saved. 

And all the rest as lost has fated, 

Howe'er they strove here and behaved." * — 

XXXIV 

For God's word giving proclamation: 
** Whoe'er believes shall have and see 

Life ceaseless; " ' and Christ's declaration: 

** I'll ne'er cast out, who comes to me; " * — 

XXXV 

Thus clearly Christ's atonement leaving 
As means of God's grace for mankind, — 

Sums up: "He^s saved, who is believing;^'' 

"Who faith lack — condemnation^ find." — 

1 Willing or not willing — ^As taught by Predestinarians. ^ John 
3: 16 etc. *John 6: 37 etc. ^ Judgment and therein condemna- 
tion, John 3: 16-18, 36 etc. 



148 The God-Man. 

XXXVI 

AllVzvt the choice for their decision. 

Else we "in Christ's stead " could not say: 

*'Be reconciled,'''' * nor with precision: 
"Repent and be baptized'" " all pray. 

XXXVII 

As " Saviour of all men " ' salvation. 

As also said explicitly 
In that great gospel-declaration: 

"God wants ^ all saved" ^ — for all^ must be. 

XXXVIII 

God's word recordeth limitation 
Of Christ's atonement in no place. 

To all extends the proclamation 

That Christ to all men offers grace. 

xxxix 
" His Son to men God was not sending 

That He mankind condemn, but save." ' 
His grace to every man extending 

"Himself a ransom for all gave." ® 

XL 

If Christ's atonement now is offered 
That with their God men be set right. 

But they reject God's grace thus proffered: 
"They darkness rather love than light. '^ ' 

I2 Cor. 5: 20. * Acts a: 38. ^ i Tim. 4: 10. * God wants, 
i. e., wishes, desires, willeth etc. * I Tim. 2: 4-6. * i Tim. 2: 
6. — ^* ivho gave himself a ramom for allJ" 'John 3 : 17, 
^ I Tim. 2: 5, 6; 2 Cor. 5: 14, 15; I Pet. i: 18, 195 Heb. 9: 
12. 'John 3: 19 etc. 



Part XI L 149 

XLI 

Through Christ's work thus to ^//extended 
The greatest prospects now we see. 

Some, therefore, who this comprehended. 
Exclaimed in boundless ecstasy: 

XLII 

** If God His own Son was not sparing. 

But gave Him up for every one. 
How shall He not, too, be preparing 

To give us all things ? ' ' ^ — -for all won."^ 

XLIII 

So confident was their assurance 

That Christ fore'er redeemed their soul. 

That they in trial pledged endurance 

To Christ's love yielding full control.' — 

^ Rom. 8 : 32 ff. etc. ' I Tim. 4 : 19 ; Acts 10 : 43 etc. 
' Rom. 8: 28-39 ^'^- 



XIII 

ASSURED CHRISTIAN FAITH APPLYING CHRIST'S 
REDEMPTION HE ACHIEVED IN HIS 
GOD-MAN NATURE. 
I 
God thus salvation ^ has provided 
In Jesus Christ His Son alone.'' 
** Each shall be saved, whoe'er confided 
In Christ who his sins did atone.' 

II 

And whom God has been justifying 
Through Christ's atonement but alone. 

He also shall be glorifying * 

In heaven before His matchless throne.* 

Ill 

Mysteriously as God-man living 
He as mail ^ both natures unified,^ 

The human and divine, thus giving 
Redemption,^ when there crucified.' 

IV 

Christ in His death was nullifying 

The curse pledged every sinner's soul,*" 

His resurrection " ratifying 

All as a most completed whole. — 

^Rom. 3: 22-26; I Tim. 2: 5, 6. ^ Acts 4: 12. 'Acts 10 
43; 13: 38, 39; Rom. 3: 25, 26. *Rom. 8: 30. ^ Rev. 5 
9-14. ^Heb. 3: 3. ' I John 4: 2, 3; John 1 : 14. ^ f^gj,^ 
12, 14, 15; Eph. i: 7; I Pet. i: 19; Rom. 5: 9. ^ G-aX. 3: 13. 
1° Gal. 3: 10, 13. " I Pet. 1:3, 21. — On this verse John Calvin 
remarks: "Faith in God then is based on Christ's resurrection. — 
Had He not overwhelmed death by His resurrection and kept He 
not now in His hands the control of the world to protect us by His 
power, what should become of us over and against the might of our 
enemies and their powerful assaults ? So let us then take well to 
heart what kind of goal we must have always iji view, if we desire 
to have faith in God." — 



Pari XIII. 151 

V 

The Christian fears no condemnation,* 

His life is e'er a holy strife,' 
His soul is sure of full salvation 

Inheriting eternal life.' 

VI 

Of Christ's Church* every one is singing: 
*' Messiah's blood and righteousness " — 

When God before ^ Him each is bringing — 
'* My beauty is and glorious dress." ® 



•Rom. 8: i; John 3: 17-21. 'Rom. 6: 22, 23. 'Rom. 6: 
22, 23; 8: 17-19, 30. * Acts 20: 28. (" Church of the Lord " — 
i. e., Church of Christ: Rom. 16: 16 etc., etc. — Marginal reading 
of the Revised Version). ' Mat. 12: 36; Rom. 14: 12. ^ This song 
constitutes almost literally the lines of the first stanza of an old 
German hymn written by Count N. L. Zinzendorf, in 1739. The 
hymn, originally, contains thirty stanzas, reduced now and modern- 
ized in all the various German hymn books to about six or seven 
stanzas. A very free translation of ten stanzas in English was made 
by John Wesley, in 1740. The first stanza in German reads: 

" Christi Blut und Gerechtigkeit, 
Das ist mein Schmuck und Ehrenkleid; 
Damit will ich vor Gott bestehn, 
Wann ich zum Himmel werd'eingehn." 

i. e. The blood of Christ and righteousness, 
My beauty is and glory-dress,* 
With this I will before God stand, 
When I am entVing in heav'n's land. — 

* This is not a " cloah,"'' as some English critic lately insinuated, 
remarking: " I am sure there is no need of a cloak to be saved, as 
the poets through some centuries past, even up to now, have stated." 
For the term " dress " used in the above context has underlying the 
simile of the Apostle John, saying: " And there was given them, 
(/'. e. the souls before the throne of God) to each one a -vhite robe, 
which," he explains further on, " they have washed and made them 
white in the blood of the Lamb." Rev, 6: 11; 7: 14. (Revised 
version.) 



152 The God- Man. 

VII 

God's Son Himself great weight was laying 

Upon opinions men might have. 
With special care He was surveying 

The testimony they Him gave.* — 

VIII 

Thus Christ this utterance has given: 
'* Who me before men shall confess. 

Before my Father who's in Heaven 

I shall him too confess " ^ — and bless. — 

IX 

None wonder, therefore, at the teaching: 

" Who/ir Christ, as God's Son, decides,' — 

The point John's logic oft is reaching — 

" In him dwells God, — he in God abides; " ^ 

X 

" Each spirit who confession maketh 

That Jesus Christ became a man, 
God's Spirit as a witness taketh. 

That is of God " ^ — and knows God's plan 

XI 

That " Who of Christ makes declaration ® 
As Lord, Him raised from death believes. 

From Him who raised Him, full salvation 
And all things there in heaven receives." ' 

iMat. 16 : 13; Mark 8 : 27 ; Luke 9: 18. 2 Mat. 10: 32; 
Luke IZ: 8; Rev. 3:5. * I John 2: 23; 4: 2 etc.; Rom. 10: 
9 etc. * I John 4: 15. * i John 4: 2. ® Rom. 10: 9, 10 etc. 
^ Rom. 8: 32; i Cor. 6: 14. 



PartXIII. 153 

XII 

** The man with faith," ^ one has asserted, — 
Who insight in man's life has shown — 

•• I ne'er saw of success deserted. 
In each such life as I have Icnown." 

XIII 

Wrote Peter: ** Those in God believing 

Through God's word ^ — truth' — born from 
above,"* — 

The glorious conquest are achieving: — 
" To love the brethren with true^ love.' 

XIV 

" The violent," * Christ Himself has stated, — 
His followers who His cause defend — 

** Heaven's kingdom gain," through Him trans- 
lated 
To heaven,'' "His faithful to the end." * — 

XV 

All men in earnest then be hailing 

Christ who invites each: " Follow me," ^ 

Each saying: Of Thee myself availing. 
My Lord, I'm Thine eternally! — 

* Goethe stated to Eckermann ('Conversations with Goethe,' 
vol. II., p. 2.63) " I have found Peter's doubt or ' little faith ' 
very valuable, because it represents the truth, so often realized in 
human life, where a man hy faith is succeeding in the most difficult 
undertaking, whilst, on the contrary, a man is lost, unfailingly, 
by the smallest degree of doubt; " — evidently as Peter, he, doubt- 
less, meant, feeling the strong force of the might}' wind in the 
tempest (recorded Mat. 14: 13 ff.) through his doubt or little 
faith would have been lost, without the uplifting miraculous assistance 
of Christ, the Son of God. ^Sijoh,, ij- 14^ 17; John 3: 3; 
I Pet. I: 21-23. * I Psf- 1= ^^- ® Mat. ii: 12 ( i. e., men of 
faithful perse-verance.) 'John 14: 2, 3; Heb. 9: 24. ** Mat. 
10: 22; Rev. 2: 7, 10 etc., etc. ^ Mat. 8: 21; 9: 9 etc., etc. 



XIV 

SPIRITUAL TREASURES GUARANTEED TO THE 
BELIEVERS IN JESUS CHRIST IN GOD'S REALM 
OF ETERNAL GLORY, IMPLYING IMMOR- 
TALITY OF MAN'S SOUL. 

I 

All ^ men are urgently requested 

"Be reconciled to God " ^ — and live 

With all the spiritual goods invested 

Which God in Christ to His does give.' 

II 

God's love* is ground for man's salvation. 
The risen Christ^ is man's new life 

And forms the heaven -born new relation 
With heaven in nameless blessings rife. 

Ill 

When Christ, God's Son, on earth was living. 
His work was crowned by love and grace. 

Which to great sinners He was giving 

E'er greeting them with gladsome face. — 

IV 

The Scribes and Pharisees this seeing. 

Indignantly gave utterance 
With Christ's course wholly disagreeing 

As He did treat vile Publicans.® 



^ I Tim. 2 : 4 etc. * 2 Cor. 5 : 20. ^ Eph. i : 3-14 etc. 
*John 3:16 etc., etc. ^ i Cor. chapter 15 etc., etc. ^ Luks 
15: 2; 19: 7 etc., etc. 



Part XIV. 155 

V 

To shame His foes' disapprobation 
God's Son replied: In heaven above. 

All living in yon habitation. 

Survey mankind in pardoning love. — 

VI 

If man to God's Will is submitting 
And to God's grace his heart relents. 

On high, " in heaven, there's joy befitting 
O'er every sinner who repents." ' — 

VII 

What comfort speak these words declaring 
That with deep interest and sweet love 

Here in the fate of mortals sharing. 
Blest Angels watch in heaven above! 

VIII 

But Angels there could not be taking 

An interest in the destiny 
Of men on earth, and there be waking 

Untiringly men's fate to see: 

IX 

Were earth not the place constituted. 
Where spirit-combats must be fought 

'Tween light and darkness — instituted 

For all whom with His blood Christ bought.' 



1 Luke 15:10; Ps. 91: II; Ps. 103: 20; Ps. 104: 4; Mat. 4: 
6; Heb. I: 7 etc. ^ I Cor. 6: 20. 



156 The God-Man. 

X 

This earth, the theatre of spirits 

For whom Christ full redemption wrought. 
Presents the spectacle of merits 

Of spirit-combats that are fought 

XI 

By every soul participating 

In combats for eternal life! 
Heaven's Angel-hosts' the end awaiting 

View each ^ enlisted in this strife ! — 



XII 

What comforts in those words are hidden 
That Angels from that sphere up there 

The messengers of God are bidden 
His peace and grace to men to bear! 

XIII 

Whoe'er repents and has forsaken 

His sins and bondages of night. 
For God alone firm stand has taken 

And lives for spiritual life and light: 

XIV 

Heaven's Angel-hosts are celebrating 

O'er him a feast and are elate. 
Though they may be commemorating 

The new-birth ^ of a s'mner great ! 

1 Ps. 148: 2 etc., etc. ^ Luke 15: 10 etc. ^ John 3: 5 fF. etc. 



Part XIV. 15; 

XV 

1{ ofie^ but conquers, they're rejoicing, — 
If one does perish, — they must mourn! — 

May Angels e'er their joys be voicing! 
May every soul of God be born ! ^ 

XVI 

But if already this is cheering 

That Angels look in sympathy 
On men, who truly are God-fearing, 

Whom wrestling for God's life they seel— 

XVII 

How much more comfort is affording 
The soul-redeeming love of Him, 

Whom holy Scriptures ^ are recording 
The Lord of hosts of Seraphim ! — 

XVIII 

The God Almighty, ever living. 

Who sitteth on the heavenly throne. 

To whom the hosts of heaven are giving 
Such praises as the highest known. — 

XIX 

As Christ Himself has us directed 

To heaven,* the place of perfect love. 

The holiest and most perfected 

We therefore must seek there above. — 

*Luke 15: 10 etc. ^John i: 13 etc. ^ Isa. 6: 2j Rev. 5: 
II etc. *Mat. 6: 20j 10: 21 etc., etc. 



158 The God-Man. 

XX 

And where God's holy ones are saying 
Their " Holy, Holy, Holy, e'er,"— 

In highest worship praises praying,' — 
God's temple's holiest must be there! — 

XXI 

Christ heaven " My Father's House " ^ portraying 
The Realm with " many a manse " "^ defined. 

With which assurance He's conveying 

That God these for *' God's Sons " ' designed. 

XXII 

And as the Christ Himself went yonder. 
In midst His Father's throne to live. 

None of His Faithful Ones need wonder, 

That there to them ♦' life's crown " ^ He'll 
give. 

XXIII 

So James, too, heaven has designated. 
Whence * ' From the Father of the lights 

Each good and perfect gift," he stated, 
** Down from above " ® to earth alights. 

XXIV 

In all this it is indicated 

That in the Realm of Glory where 
God throneth,' who all things created 

Through Christ, both. Source of All live 
there. ^ — 

» Rev. 5: 8-14 etc. 2 John 14: 2 ff. ^ Rom. 8: 14 ff. * Rev. 
5: 6. ^ Rev. 2; 10; James I: 12. ^ James i: 17. 'Rev. 5: 
II. 8 Col. i: 16 ff.; Eph. 5: s- 



Part XIV. 159 

XXV 

From there all things originated. 

From there life, lights ^ and forces start 

Through all the world disseminated; 

From there grace fills with joy each heart. — 

XXVI 

All realms of spirits are subjected 

To God's Realm, and as Christ, God's Son, 
Exceeds in glory most perfected 

All others,^ He exceeds ^ each one. 

XXVII 

Completely, this Paul, too, thus stated: 

" God's might Christ from the dead has raised. 

And to his right hand elevated 

In heaven, and far above all placed; 

XXVIII 

** Above all powers, all names exceeding 
In this and in the world to come," * 

To Christ he also is acceding 

That " He God's Image * is become, 

XXIX 

"The first born of God's whole creation. 
Of heavenly things and things on earth, — 

The whole world giving attestation — 

That all through Christ received its birth." * — 

XXX 

And then, supremely, Christ, too, saying: 
** Lay up for you things that remain 

^ James i: 17. ^ Phil. 2: 9 ff. ^ Heb. i: 5. * Eph. i: 20- 
23. ^Col. i: IS; Heb. I: 2 ff. « Col. i: 15-18 (Rev. Ver- 
sion) etc. 



i6o The God-Man. 

In heaven," ' the great truth is conveying 
That there a heritage we obtain. 

XXXI 

The treasures of which Christ is speaking. 
Are " spiritual blessings up in heav'n," * 

Which we as Christ's joint-heirs^ are seeking,— 
Most longingly * in faith seek e'en. 

XXXII 

So Peter similar promise giving 
Of God thus most distinctly says: 

" He again begat us to hope ^ living. 

When from the dead He Christ did raise, 

XXXIII 

To an inker it a?ice e'er vernal. 
And spotless, fading ne'er away. 

Kept in the heavens," pure and eternal. 
Free from this world's and times' decay. 

XXXIV 

To God he is as author leading 

Of this our heritage in heav'n. 
And for the Father's praise is pleading. 

Who in Christ to us this boon has giv'n. — 

XXXV 

Assurance us thus is afforded 

That where® Christ is, there we shall be. 
That with our name ' there is recorded 

Our heritage eternally.* 

iMat. 6: 19 ff. ^Eph. i: 3-14. ^ Rom. 8: 14 ff. *2 Cor. 5: 
1-9. ^i Pet. I: 3, 4. ^John 14: 3; 17: 24. 'Luke lo: 20. 
* Heb. 9: 15 etc. 



XV 

ACCEPTANCE OF JESUS CHRIST AS THE SON OF 
GOD AND THE ONLY SAVIOUR OF THE 
WORLD — IRRESPECTIVE OF ALL OTHER 
SYSTEMS OF RELIGION, ETHICS, PHILOSOPHIES, 
ETC.,— IMPLIES PARTICIPATION IN THE NEW 
TESTAMENT PROMISED DIVINE NATURE, AND 
OF THE GLORIFICATION LIKE CHRIST'S IN 
HEAVEN ETERNALLY. 

I 

Should now not heavenward we be soaring 

In atmosphere like crystal clear. 
And Christ's works through God's word be ex- 
ploring. 

Clinging to Christ, God's Son, most near? — 

II 
Yet though this work of sure salvation 

To Christ-believers fully giv'n. 
Begets hope ^ for participation 

In treasures kept for us" in heav'n: 

III 
The Christian Church in part pervadeth — 

Short of God's truth and righteousness ^ — 
And pure religion sadly shadeth: 

Much unbelief and worldliness. — 



Men's acts and words untruths conveying. 
Their vows by small bribes often bought: 

Their hearts as godless are betraying — 

Could else unrighteous deeds be wrought ? — 

1 I Pet. I : 3 ff. etc. ^ , Pet. i ; 4 ff.j 2 Pet. I : 4. etc. 
'Mat. 6:33 etc. 



1 62 The God-Man. 

V 

Surplus of means — grand houses raising. 
Ne'er entering into Christ's belief/ — 

Far more the Lord in heaven were praising. 
If spent *' to give " the poor relier." -- 

VI 

Men Christ-like faith ' want, which not savours 

Of philosophic human creeds. 
Such faith as God to please endeavors. 

Mindless of costs* or zeal it needs; — 

VII 

Faith that in Christ its anchor planteth. 
To God's Son but for safety looks,* 

Such faith as after God e'er panteth 
As pants the hart for water brooks.' 

VIII 

Great want of Christian faith is showing 

In every walk of life its type. 
Thus sin's hosts, weed-like, swiftly growing 

To mischief for God's wrath' get ripe. — 

IX 

Men live, 'mid glories here possessing. 

To spiritual glories almost blind. 
And science-lights for light addressing. 

Vague forms and shadows ^ often find. 

*John 4: 21 ff.; Compare Luke 21: 5 ff. ^ Mat. 19: 21 fF. 
etc. ^ Luke 17: 6. * Luke 9: 62 etc. * Acts 3: 19; Heb. 10: 
17; Mat. II: 27, 28; Isa. 45 : 22 etc. * Psalm 42: i ff. etc. 
' Mat. 16: 27; Rom. 2: 6; Rev. 22: 16 etc. ^ As unsatisfactory 
as in scientific pursuits, some discoveries in solar physics, effected 
by means of spectroscopic analysis (vol. IL, p. 787, 9th Ed. 
Encycl. Brit.) 



Part XV. 163 

X 

Philosophy in this agreeing: 

" In Him " ^ — who all the world pervades,' 
" We live and move and have our being," 

God's word and Christ's exalts, ne'er 
shades.' — 

XI 

To have belief eliminated 

In the All-creating Power divine 

^ Acts 17: 28. ''Mat. 10: 29, 30; Ps. 139; Jer. 23:24: 
" Do not I fill heaven and earth ? saith the Lord," etc. 'Only 
ignorance of the meaning of the original text of Goethe's words 
(which I translate correctly below) can impute Pantheism to him, 
when he states of God's objecti-ve and subjecti-ve manifestations thus: 

" What God were He, who but from the outside push, 
The All let on His finger circling rush! 
'Tis His, the whole world from within to move, 
Nature in Him, Himself in her to prove, 
So that, what in Him lives and moves and is. 
Does ne'er His power, ne'er His Spirit miss."-^ 

" Within the soul, too, is a universe. 
Thus every nation laudably refers 
To that which each one as the best proclaims. 
As God, and e'en his God each names. 
Gives o'er to Him this earth and Heaven above, 
Him fears, and possibly does love." — 
— (' Goethe's Poetical Works: " God and the World." '^ 



164 T^he God-Man. 

Some ^ tried and for this purpose stated 
That *^ All exists without design.'''' 



Thus, with the "First Cause " ^ God denying. 
Who all things gave their end and aim^ 

God's wisdom most supreme defying, 
"All aimless'''' they created claim. 



' Charles Darwin, ' On the Origin of Species by means of Natural 
Selection,' London, 1859; ' Descent of Man,' 1871; Prof. Ernst 
Haeckel, ' Natural History of Creation,' 2d Edition, Berlin, 1873; 
and several other naturalists, e. g., A. R. Wallace, ' The Theory 
of Natural Selection,' London, 1870; Prof. Th. H. Huxley, 
'Lay-Sermons, Addresses and Reviews,' London, 1870 etc. — 
Whilst some of the most eminent scientists rejected Darwinism from 
the first, e. g., Agassiz, K. E. v. Baer, Beale, Th. BischofF, Rud. 
Wagner, Wigand, Dana, Lyell, Owen, Ulrizi, and most of the 
French physiologists etc., and some others, e. g., H. Helmholz, 
Virchow, Th. Fechner etc., partly recognized Darwin's idea, 
but doubted and disputed the extent he gives to it, E. Blanchard, 
a member of the French Academy and one of the foremost French 
physiologists, even after Darwin's many explanations and modifica- 
tions of statements in later editions of his works, has not hesitated 
to call some of Darwin's conclusions a " mere fiction." {^Rcv, de 
Deux Mondes, 1874, 3 livr., p. 580 fF. ) ^ Causa Jinalis, — God, 
Gen. I: 1 fF.; John I: 1-4 etc. 'Gen. chapter i-a etc. 



Part XK 165 

XIII 

In ♦'forms organic" of creation, 

As ♦' first organic law " they see 
** A blind mechanical relation 

Which wholly works unconsciously," 

XIV 

*• By Natural Selection " — " choosing 
Congenial parts," — •* without a plan," 

*' The same constructed fruits producing " 
*♦ As all the art-fruits, raised by man." ^ 

XV 

In " Evolution," much illuming 

The rest of all their doctrine's terms, 

<* All forms evolved," they are assuming, 
♦' From one or more primary germs; " ^ 

XVI 

** All living^ things on earth," including 
** Plants, animals, of men ^ each one. 

From only a few laws," he's concluding 
"Their evolution-start is done." * 



^ So Darwin throughout, and Haeckel ( one of the foremost 
followers of Darwin in Germany) expressly declares: " The productr 
of natural selection, this working through an unconscious, aimless, 
mechanical relation, are constructed just as well to the purpose as 
the art products of man." ( ' Natural History of Creation,' 2d Edit., 
Berlin, 1873.) ^ Darwin ' Origin of Species,' p. 92 ff. etc. 
' Wallace in his work ( p. 359) excludes men in his theory, insisting 
" that a superior intelligence is necessary to account for mati." * Dar- 
win in ' Origin of Species,' and his followers after him in their works. 
* Darwin assumes the existence of life like Herbert Spencer, whose 
indefinite idea he quotes: " Life depends on, or consists in the 



1 66 The God-Man, 



XVII 

In law " Heredity," ^ he's holding: 
The offspring like the parent is; " 

In law *' Variation," he's beholding: 
" The differences " of that in this.^ 



incessant action and reaction of various forces," p. 326, admitting 
indirectly here and elsewhere a Creator, but of his character or of 
his relation to the world he never says more than the word itself 
implies. — He himself says distinctly : '■'■artificial selection is an 
intelligent design or process, but natural selection is not. ■ Whilst 
using often teleological language, he and his followers reject all 
teleology, or the doctrine of first or final causes. He and his 
followers clearly repudiate design or purpose in the world's creation. 
— Thus of the eye, e. g. , Darwin teaches in several elaborate pages 
( full of assumptions) ' ' that it was formed without design or purpose 
of producing an organ of vision." ' Origin of Species,' p. 222 ff. etc. 

' " The offspring is like the parent," ' Origin of Species,' p. 92 
ff. * " The offspring, though essentially like their immediate 
progenitor, they yet differ," he states, " some for the worse, some 
for the better, the plant or animal exercises its functions either to 
disadvantage or to greater advantage," etc., p. 92 ff. ' Origin of 
Species.' Darwin, thus, finally, in his work: * Descent of Man,' 
advances the daring, but still unpro-ved assumption that " the 
proximate progenitor of man is the ape; " that " man is descended 
from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, 
probably arboreal in its habits and an inhabitant of the Old World. ' ' 
—Vol. II. p. 372 ff.) 



Part XV. 167 

XVIII 

Then in his law of" O'erproduction," 
" More increase than means of support," 

He implies a law of sure reduction. 
His "Let the fittest live " resort.^ — 

XIX 

* Organic-beings variated. 

The like and unlike amplified. 
Food-want by their increase created. 

Their love for life e'er multiplied, 

XX 

Hence bents for betterment there reigning 

In nature as creative law : 
Must we not justly be maintaining 

And logical conclusions draw: 

XXI 

That God, the First Cause, "^ was arranging 

The Kosmos' laws originally. 
By well-planned processes e'er changing 

Organic-forms as they should be ? — 

XXII 

That God creates ' profuse production 
And myriads living blossoms gives. 

And likewise laws made of reduction 
So that not every blossom lives ? — 

1 " Overproduction," i. e., "all plants and animals in a 
geometrical ratio tend to overrun enormously the means of support, 
consequently, if all the seeds of plants, all the spawn of fishes etc., 
were to mature, very soon the world could not contain them, hence 
arises the battle or struggle for life, and only a few, comparatively, 
of the myriads born, can possibly live," etc. ' Origin of Species,' 
p. 92 ff. etc. * Argument against Darwinism. ^ God, the 
Creator, Gen. 1-2; John i: 1-4 etc. * Gen. I: 11 ff. etc. 



1 68 The God-Man. 

xxni 

That God, at first, laws instituted 

In all creations, by His Will 
Organic or else constituted, 

God'' 5 aims for ever to fulfil? 

XXIV 

That God for men laws was ordaining. 

Whom He in " His own image made," ' 

That heirship^ in God's Kingdom gaining. 
Celestial bliss Christ's hosts pervade ' ? ! — 

XXV 

If wheels and spring the clockwork moving. 
So that the exact time we can see. 

An intellect's designs are proving 
To adjust the clockwork accurately: 

XXVI 

Must not the wondrous world's creations. 

As all desigtis shozv,^ surely be 
God's grand creative demonstrations 

To prove His mind's aims perfectly ?! ^ — 

1 Gen. I: 26; 5: i, 2 etc. ^ John i: 12; 3: 3, 5, 16; Rom. 
8: 14, 16, 17 etc. ^ Rev. 21: 3-7 etc., etc. ■* In a Glasgow 
lecture the Duke of Argyll said: " In the last year of his life Mr. 
Darwin visiting me, answered to the words I said, in the course of 
conversation, that it was impossible to look at the wonderful 
processes of nature which he had observed, without seeing that they 
were the effect and expression of mind: ' Well, it often comes over 
me with overpowering force, but at other times it seems to go 
away.' " (Modern Medical Science, vol. XIII., No. 2, p. 92.) 
^ The great German Poet Gellert, therefore, sang religiously, in his 
still most popular hymn, entitled: ( " Wie grosz ist des Almacht'gen 
Giite i') in the first stanza: 

How great is the Almighty's goodness ? 

Is he a man who feels it not ? 
Who through a hardened mind, in crudeness, 
Withholds due thanks, though not forgot ? etc. 

—(Hymn 51 in my ' Psalter, Harp and Song.') 



Part XV. 169 

XXVII 

(His ^ writings are, with small exception — 
As in the sea some water-drops — 

Atheistic in their whole conception. 

If them to read with sense one stops. ) — 

xxviii 
Thus, as their ^ schemes, profusely stated. 

Are still hypotheses unproved. 
The fact remains: God has created 

The world; it He Himself approved!^ 

xxix 

What contrast now to men do offer 
The Sacred Scriptures which bestow 

The comfort through the facts they proffer 
Which men's creation-records show.* 

XXX 

God's word inspiringly is saying 

That God man's being long foreknew. 

Each man's construction was surveying 
When first he wonderfully grew;* 

XXXI 

That everywhere ® man meets God's Being, 
No matter where man may be found; 

That God minutely all is seeing. 

Without Him naught falls to the ground.''— 

^ i. e., Darwin's writings, although he is considered a theist and 
not an atheist, or materialist, as his writings evidently imply. Thus, 
in a lecture in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 4, 1909, in the course of Uni- 
versity Extension, Prof. J. C. Powys, of Oxford University, England, 
said that " the moral influence of the teaching of Darwin and 
Huxley, etc., gave a trend toward a form of fatalism, a materialistic 
determination." ^ The doctrines or schemes of Darwin and his fol- 
lowers. 'Gen. i: 31 etc. ^ Ps. 139: 1-18, 23, 24, etc., etc. ' Ps. 
139:15,16. ^ Ps. 139: 7-12; Jer. 23: 24etc. Mat. 6: 28; 10: 29, 
30; Luke 12: 6 etc. 



170 The God-Man. 

XXXII 

What now great scientists are saying. 
Some ^ long ago in part have said. 

When they the Universe surveying 

Saw much — still to our view outspread. — 

XXXIII 

Hypotheses still are prevailing 

In fields wherein all science deals. 

Great mysteries, still unsolved, are veiling 
This world and none can break the seals 

xxxiv 
Unlocking all the secret forces. 

Whereby this Universe is run. 
To show the labyrinthic courses 

Through which God's ruling work is done, 

XXXV 

In covered favor and disfavor * 

Adjusting human destinies 
In keeping with His justice, ever 

Rewarding man's iniquities.' — 

xxxvi 
If fibrin * in some duct prevented 

The blood to bring the brain supplies. 
No science help yet has invented, — 

The sick soon senseless grows — and dies. — 

^Job 38; Ps. 19: 1-6 etc., etc. ^ Exod. 33: 19; Rom. 9: 15 
fF. etc. ; Eccles. 9: 11, 12. ^ Exod. 20: 5 etc. * If in man's 
heart-troubles, most commonly from a diseased cardiac valve, mostly, 
moreover, from the mitral valve, an embolus, i. e., some loosely 
attached piece of fibrin, is separated and carried into a vertebral artery, 
vein, or sinew, sudden paralysis ensues, and then most patients losing 
consciousness soon must die. — 



Part XV. 171 

XXXVII 

Men try the mysteries to be knowing 
In which are rapt the heavens afar. 

And with great telescopes are showing 
The heavens adorned with star on star; ' 



And yet the hosts of lights there shining. 
They cannot touch, nor e'en all see; 

And none could ever be defining 

Our sun,* what kind of orb he be! — 

XXXIX 

The extermination-records shading 

The Lord God's dealings with mankind,' — 
From rashness critics dissuading — 

By God's Son justified * we find. 

XL 

No where — this fact is worth while minding — 

Such impulse for heroic strife 
As in God's word we e'er are finding. 

Whose goal presents eternal life. — 

XLI 

There are men who' re philosophizing 

How far God's kingdom's lines should go. 

But should we e'er be minimizing 

The work Christ charged His Church 
to do ? ^ — 

1 Ps. 19: 1-6 etc. 2 Vol. II., p. 787, 9th Edit., Encycl. Brit. — 
whether the sun be liquid, solid or -vaporous. ' Gen. 19: 24, 25 
etc. *Mat. lO: 15; 11 : 24. ^ Mat. 28: 19 etc. 



172 T^he God-Man. 



** Go into all the world! " * Christ charging 
His followers, when He left this earth. 

To thoughts His Realm to be enlarging 
In His disciples' mind gave birth. — 

XLIII 

Christ's Church "Thy kingdom come! " ' e'< 
praying 

Through those past nineteen centuries. 
Should now our trust we be betraying. 

Because some obstacles increase ? — 

XLIV 

By no means! but in such proportion 

As hindrances are multiplied. 
The remedy needs strong supportion 

And carefully to be applied. 

XLV 

O that expansion were extending 

To all lands steeped in bigotry! 
And to all Gentiles we be sending 

God's word, through Christ to make all free! 

XLVI 

This problem long ago was solving 
God's Son, when He so truly said — 

The rescue of all men involving — 
The trial amply e'er repaid: — 

^Mat. 28: 19 etc., etc. ''Mat. 6: 10. 



Part XV. 173 

XLVII 

** The children ^ never be forbidden. 

But suffer them to come to me. 
From them God's kingdom is not hidden, 

Its membership of them shall be." — 

XLVIII 

A young tree thus may be directed 
That it its right shape may obtain. 

But if its growth once is perfected. 

All power to change it proves in vain ! — 

XLIX 

The youth must be indoctrinated 

In genuine Christianity, 
In God's word ^ fully educated. 

As taught by Christ, from errors free! — 

L 

In God's word all men are receiving 
The light which lights their path of life. 

It is for them who are believing 

With safest, wisest counsels rife.' — 

LI 

Were infidels and skeptics reading 

God's saving work in history 
From step * to step in its proceeding: 

A wise and just God they must see! 

iMark 10: 14; Luke 18: 16. ^John 5: 39. ' Ps.19: 7-14; 
Mat. 5: 3-48; 6: 1-34; 7: 1-27 etc., etc. * Gen. 3: 15 etc , etc. 



174 ^he God-Man. 

LII 

They, too, the great truth would be reaching 
That All to God is fully known ! ^ 

The self-conceit of men impeaching. 

Who trust the seen and known alone. — 

LIII 

No doubt, great spiritual foundations 
Of all that God and man concerns,* 

Are seen in Bible-revelations 

By him, who spiritual things discerns.* 

LIV 

The Bible, wholly it beholding. 

The most divine Book proves to be. 

And in it, in its full infolding. 

The Book most human all can see. 

LV 

And why ? — Because 'tis ever showing 

A panorama manifold 
Of scenes and living pictures glowing 

In beauties, marvelous to behold; 

LVI 

From Genesis through Revelation, 
Like star on star in heaven above, 

God proves to men His full relation 

Through wondrous deeds of power and love. 

1 Psalm 139: I-18 etc.; Mat. 6: 8, 32J John 16: 30; 21: 17; 
Acts 15: 18; Rom. 8: 27 etc. ^ Psalm 90 etc. ^ \ Cor. 2: 14 etc. 



Part XF. 175 

LVII 

The Bible fully is revealing 

Of God his perfect Entity, 
And of mankind nought is concealing, 

Though most depraved and vile it be. — 

LVIII 

As one ' salvation is existing — 

** The eternal life " ' for godly men,' 

No Christian ought shrink from enlisting 
True Christian Union to sustain. 

LIX 

Christ's Church in branches ' still divided, — 

This in itself should not prevent 
The Spirit-Unity provided 

Through Christ and which He fully meant, 

LX 

When finally, He supplicated: 

That His true followers " may be one, 

As Father, thou'rt in me," He stated, 
" And likewise in thee I, thy Son." * 

LXl 

Since one his Calvinism esteemeth 

Too dear than from it to depart; 
Another faith pragmatic deemeth 

Most suitable to his own heart; — 

• I Cor. i: 30; Rom. 8: 32 etc., etc.; Col. 2: 2 ff.; John 3: 16, 
etc. ' Acts 10: 34 ff. ' I Cor. 3: 3 ff. " Said I," relates Ecker- 
mann (' Goethe to Eckermann, 1829 '), " There were need of 
Christ's coming for the second time to deliver us from the austerity, 
discomfort, and tremendous pressures (disunion) under which 
we live." " To which," he continues, " Goethe answered: ' Yes, 
the people would crucify him a second time.' " — * John 17: 21 ff. 
etc. 



176 The God-Man. 

LXII 

As cold and careless some are feeling 
To Christian Union's broad intent; 

Others their mind are not revealing 

Till they know this and that mind's bent; 

LXIII 

And to a false creed their creed molding, 

Some boast of their exclusive way, 
Like pseudo-priests absurdly holding 

All lost,' who pray not as they pray: 

LXIV 

It thus exists much hesitation 

To sanction Spirit-Unity 
Whose bliss alone full consecration 

To Christ's majestic cause can seel — 

LXV 

United Christians fully aiming 

To work 'gainst this world's godless strife, 
By faith in Christ can be proclaiming: 

" Whoe'er believes in Christ, wins life! " * 

LXVI 

We not on oneness of devotions 

And ceremonies do insist, 
As not in words, ^ mere creeds, or notions 

Religion's holy ends consist. — 

• Luke 18: 9 ff., etc. ^ John 3: 16 etc., etc. s Matt. 7: 20 ff. 
etc., etc. 



Part XV. 177 

LXVII 

Are there not things done and words spoken, 
Howe'er in vain, as one grace: love,^ 

The brightest motor, heaven-born token 

Men's thoughts and actions does not move ? 

LXVIII 

Since love to God and man possessing 

Of all commandments Christ called chief:* 

So in our life as in His this blessing 
Should form the immortal bas-relief." 

LXIX 

The Christians' lives were not intended 

That uniform on earth they be; 
But Christian minds should e'er be blended 

As " one " * in Spirit-Unity. 

LXX 

This Unity of Spirit renders 

The Lord and His true members one; 

And thus, whoe'er to Christ surrenders. 

Finds hosts, ^ for whom Christ life has won! — 

LXXI 

But though on earth we must be living 
By faith and hope, not by full sight," 

Sufficient insight God is giving 

To win ' His life and see ' His light. 



' I Cor. 13: 13 etc. 2 Mark 12: 28-31. ^ Mat. 8: 5-13; 12: 50^ 
15: 28; Mark 10: 21; Luke 23: 43 etc., etc. * John 17; 11 etc. 
« I Cor. i: 9, 10; I John i: 3-7, etc. ^ 2 Cor. 5: 7 etc. ' John 3: 16. 
8 I Tim. 6:16 etc., etc. 



178 The God-Man. 



LXXII 

Not on mere sentiment relying 

Will be the genuine Christian's creed. 

Who worships God — Christ's rule applying — 
♦* In spirit and in truth " ^ indeed. 

LXXIII 

Not any creed's strict orthodoxy. 

Short oi sound faith in Jesus Christ,^ 

No substitute for Christ, no proxy. 

E'en in the saintliest forms disguised, — 

LXXIV 

Secures us our divine ' relation 

God's Children,* saved ^ to be in heav'n; • 
For Christ's name ^ for complete salvation 

Jlone 'neath heaven to us is giv'n. 

LXXV 

In Christ, God's Son, the Mediator,' 

The only Saviour of mankind. 
The most approved ® divine testator. 

Our legacy to heaven we find. 

LXXVI 

Our heritage with Christ receiving 

Through God, who raised Him from the 
dead,i» 
And in Christ's heirship ours perceiving. 

Like Him world's victors being made," 

ijohn 4 : 24. 2John 3 : 16 etc.; 6:35; Rom. 5:11 etc. 
»2 Pet. 1:4. *Rom. 8:17. ^i Pet. 1:18. ^ ^ Fet. i: ii. 
■J Acts 4: 12. 8 Rom. 8: 34; I Tim. 2: 5; Heb. 8: 6; 12: 24. 
9Col. i:i4ff. 1" Rom. II: 29, 32. " Rom. 8: 17, 37 etc. 




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Part XV. i8l 

LXXVII 

When following Jesus' resurrection 
There in a form renewed and bright. 

And clothed upon ^ with Christ's perfection. 
Our soul and body re-unite,^ 



LXXVIII 

When up and onward we are going 

Into yon heaven's most glorious sphere,^ 

We in the bliss from God outflowing. 
Like Christ shall glorified appear; * 



LXXIX 

There shall for ever we be seeing 

All truths for which we here much yearn. 
For e'er with Christ and with God being 

From cloudless light we ne'er shall turn; 



LXXX 

There God and Christ and all things ^ knowing. 
With life eternal crowned and blest,® 

In glory for God's glory glowing. 
In God all- wise our bliss shall rest; 



^ 2 Cor. 5:4. * I Cor. chapter 15 etc. ^ Heb. 9: 24; 2 Cor. 
12 : 2; I Tim. 6 : 16 etc. *' I John 3:2. ^ 2 Pet. 1 : 2 ff . 
' I Pet. I: 34 etc. 



1 82 The God-Man. 



LXXXI 

There with the Choirs celestial singing 
The songs exalting God supreme 

And anthems, hymns and worship bringing 
With Cherubim^ and Seraphim;* 

LXXXII 

There perfect Hallelujah ' raising 

In holy spheres, all holy then: 
In perfect strains we shall be praisi?ig 

God through Eternity ! — Amen ! — 

iQen: 3: 24. ^ Rev. 5; H fF.; Isa. 6: 2 ff. »Rev. 19: 1, 
3,4, 6j 21: 6, 7 etc. 




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